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BOP Sued For Federal Prisoner's Negligent Blinding

Loaded on March 15, 2009

Filed under: Medical, Pain, Vision, Failure to Treat, Federal Tort Claims Act. Location: Florida.

Ex Florida federal prisoner Luis Monroy Vargas brought a federal tort action against the United States in 1999 after becoming blind in one eye. Federal Bureau of Prisons personnel at three facilities failed to treat him properly after an object fell into his eye.

Monroy Vargas was incarcerated at the ...

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