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Denial Of Food and Medicine Supports Eighth Amendment Claim
The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that a prisoner's medical condition was sufficiently serious to support an Eighth Amendment claim, and material fact issues existed as to whether officials acted with deliberate indifference toward the prisoner's serious medical condition.
Orrin S. Reed, a prisoner at the Westville ...
Orrin S. Reed, a prisoner at the Westville ...
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