Supreme Court to review if inmate can sue over lack of medical help after prison riot

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• Washington ExaminerLean R·2h ago

  Supreme Court to review if inmate can sue over lack of medical help after prison riot

  The Supreme Court will weigh whether an inmate can sue prison officials for allegedly not giving adequate medical treatment following a prison riot, a possibly key case for determining the scope of prisoners’ Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishments. The high court announced that it will hear the case Nielsen v. Watanabe in […]

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