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Minnesota DOC Sued Over Failure to Provide New Hepatitis C Treatment Protocol
Minnesota DOC Sued Over Failure to Provide New Hepatitis C Treatment Protocol
by Greg Dober
On May 1, 2015, two prisoners at MCF-Stillwater filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections, Centurion Managed Care (a division of Centene Corporation), DOC Commissioner Tom Roy and several physicians. The ...
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