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Minnesota DOC Sued Over Failure to Provide New Hepatitis C Treatment Protocol

Loaded on July 31, 2015 by Greg Dober published in Prison Legal News August, 2015, page 22
Filed under: Hepatitis. Location: Minnesota.

Minnesota DOC Sued Over Failure to Provide New Hepatitis C Treatment Protocol

by Greg Dober

On May 1, 2015, two prisoners at MCF-Stillwater filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections, Centurion Managed Care (a division of Centene Corporation), DOC Commissioner Tom Roy and …

 

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