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Delay in Dental Care States Claim
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1995, page 7
The eighth circuit court of appeals has reaffirmed the long-standing principle that delaying dental care for prisoners violates the eighth amendment. Ronald Boyd, a Missouri state prisoner, began suffering pain to his jaw on June 1, 1991. He requested to see a dentist. After receiving no response he filed another ...
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