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BOP Prisoner Receives $5,000 Settlement for Medical Care Claim

Loaded on Aug. 1, 2016

Filed under: Failure to Treat. Location: California.

The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $5,000 to settle a prisoner’s civil rights action claiming deliberate indifference to his medical needs.

Prisoner Herman Resnick claimed that while at U.S. Penitentiary Lompoc in California in 1998 he was denied two pairs of boots and support stockings to his varicose …

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