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PHS Pays $350,000 to Settle Claim for Over-Medication Death of Florida Jail Prisoner
Loaded on April 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2006, page 16
Prison Health Services (PHS) has, once again, entered into a pretrial settlement to pay the family of a prisoner who died from the negligent care provided by PHS at Floridas Leon County Detention Center (LCOC).
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Prison Health Services,
Medication,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Florida.
The parents of a Ruth Hubbs brought this action in Leon County Circuit Court, but ...
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