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Tennessee Prisoner Awarded $242,500 in CCA Medical Neglect Suit
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2003, page 29
On December 3, 2002, a U.S. district court issued a $400,000 judgment against Corrections Corporation of America for violating the rights of Wesley Taylor, a prisoner at the South Central Correctional facility in Tennessee. After hearing Taylor's §1983 federal civil rights suit stemming from improper medical treatment, a jury held ...
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Gang Policies,
Evidentiary Ruling,
Expert Witnesses,
RLUIPA,
Qualified Immunity,
Publications/Books,
Religious Freedom,
Denial of Religious Services,
Religious Property.
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