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$1.2 Million Awarded Against PHS After Florida Jail Prisoner Paralyzed
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2011, page 24
A federal jury in Florida has awarded $1.2 million to a former prisoner who was paralyzed due to deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs while he was incarcerated at the Lee County Jail. The jury found that the jail’s for-profit medical provider, Prison Health Services (PHS), was solely liable. ...
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Prison Health Services,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Nervous System,
Skeletal Injury,
Private Contractors,
Skeletal Disorder,
Failure to Treat,
Malpractice.
Location:
Florida.
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