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Court Allows Deliberate Indifference Claim for Denial of Medication to Proceed

U.S. Magistrate Judge B. Janice Ellington has allowed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action to move beyond screening. The action, brought by a former Nueces County Jail prisoner, alleges that jail officials were deliberately indifferent in providing the prisoner with psychiatric and pain medications.

Joe Hernandez brought suit against jail ...

 

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