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No Summary Judgment for Jail’s Denial of Mental Health Treatment; $150,000 Settlement
Loaded on March 5, 2019
by Mark Wilson
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2019, page 46
Filed under:
Corizon,
Settlements,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Oregon.
by Mark Wilson
On June 8, 2018, an Oregon fed-eral district court denied a summary judgment motion filed by jail officials, concluding that a reasonable jury could find a psychotic detainee’s 16-day confinement without treatment constituted deliberate indifference to his serious medical condition.
The Lane County Sheriff’s ...
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