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Denial of Pain Medication Violates Eighth Amendment

Loaded on Aug. 15, 1999 published in Prison Legal News August, 1999, page 20
Filed under: Medical, Medication, Pain, Cancer, Qualified Immunity. Location: Wisconsin.
The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that a guard's denial of prescribed pain medication to a prisoner undergoing cancer treatment violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. James Ralston, a Wisconsin state prisoner, was given radiation treatment for Hodgkin's disease. The treatment caused painful ...

 

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