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Eighth Circuit Allows Termination of Minnesota Prison Health Care Consent Decree

On November 21, 2008, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a federal district court's order terminating the Hines Consent Decree covering prison medical care in the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC).

In 1973, Howard Lansing Hines and other Minnesota state prisoners filed a class-action suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. ...

 

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