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BOP Settles Lawsuits Related to Food Poisoning at Pennsylvania Prison

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2013 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News December, 2013, page 38
Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Medical, Gastrointestinal, Failure to Treat, Food. Location: Pennsylvania.
As previously reported in Prison Legal News, hundreds of federal prisoners at USP Canaan, a high-security federal prison northwest of Scranton, Pennsylvania, became sick after eating salmonella-contaminated chicken in June 2011. [See: PLN, August 2012, p.31].

Although Bureau of Prisons (BOP) officials denied reports of widespread food poisoning at the ...

 

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