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BOP Finger Amputation States Eighth Amendment Claim

Reversing a lower court ruling, the Tenth Circuit found that a prisoner whose finger fell off after it was re-attached by a prison doctor stated an Eighth Amendment claim for deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs.

In June 1999, Horace Oxendine, a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institute at ...

 

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