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CMS Nurse Injects 15 Delaware Prisoners with the Same Syringe

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2008 published in Prison Legal News November, 2008, page 28
Filed under: CMS, Misconduct/Corruption, Medical Misconduct, HIV/AIDS, Blood, Hepatitis. Location: Delaware.
That Delaware prisoners have been subject to dreadful health care by the state’s medical contractor, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), is not a new revelation for readers of PLN. We previously published an exposé on the deaths, injuries and deliberate indifference suffered by Delaware prisoners as a result of CMS’s medical ...

 

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