$325,002 Award to Michigan Prisoner Denied Medical Care for Joint Pain
Loaded on Jan. 10, 2017
published in
Prison Legal News
January, 2017, page 36
Filed under:
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Pain,
Failure to Treat,
Eighth Amendment,
Attorney Fee Awards.
Location:
Michigan.
A federal jury has awarded $325,002 to a prisoner upon finding Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) staff were deliberately indifferent to his chronic joint pain.
State prisoner Temujin Kensu, 52, suffered for over two decades with medical issues that included serious shoulder, back, knee, elbow and intestinal problems that ...
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