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Correctional Medical Care Pays $425,000 Settlement in Prisoner’s Opiate Withdrawal Death
Loaded on Jan. 10, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2017, page 39
Filed under:
Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal,
Failure to Treat,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
New York.
Correctional Medical Care (CMC) agreed to a $425,000 settlement in a lawsuit alleging the company’s practice of putting profit before patient care resulted in the opiate withdrawal death of a prisoner at New York’s Schenectady County Jail (SCJ).
Nicole Carmen, 39 and a mother of three, was a heroin addict ...
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