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Corizon Faces Suit for Failing to Administer Tube Feedings to Pennsylvania Prisoner
Loaded on Dec. 8, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2016, page 49
Filed under:
Food/Commissary (Private Prisons),
Corizon,
Medical Misconduct,
Jail Misconduct,
Malpractice,
Food,
Jail Specific.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
Christopher Wallace, 30, was arrested on February 12, 2015 on charges of robbing two banks. According to his attorney, Wallace committed the crimes in a desperate attempt to secure funds to pay for feeding tubes he required because his esophagus had been severed from his stomach in a shooting incident ...
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