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California Prison System Settles Untreated Cancer Case for Undisclosed Sum

Loaded on May 15, 2012

Filed under: Medical, Cancer. Location: California.

A settlement was reached in a lawsuit claiming prison medical personnel failed to provide treatment for a growing cancerous lump in a prisoner’s neck.

When Dean L. Brooks, a prisoner at California’s Calipatria State Prison, noticed a lump on his neck in December 1996, he went to sick call at ...

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