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Minnesota Prisoners Win Access to New Hepatitis C Medications
Loaded on July 2, 2019
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2019, page 52
Minnesota prisoners have prevailed in a class-action lawsuit requiring the Department of Corrections (DOC) to provide highly effective but costly direct-acting antiviral (DAA) drugs to treat hepatitis C infections.
Five state prisoners, represented by attorneys Andrew H. Mohring, Peter J. Nickitas and Carl Peter Erlinder, filed suit in 2015 ...
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