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Death Row Prisoners in Two States File Suit over Hip Replacements
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2013
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2013, page 52
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Skeletal Disorder,
Failure to Treat,
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Row.
Location:
United States of America.
The fact that prisoners have a constitutional right to adequate medical care under the Eighth Amendment has long been established. Since the U.S. Supreme Court made that pronouncement in Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97 (1976), most lawsuits challenging deliberate indifference by guards and medical staff …
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