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| Inmates' suit claims Massachusetts denies prisoners hepatitis C drugs |
| By masslive.com- Shira Schoenberg |
| Published: 06/15/2015 |
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BOSTON - A prisoners' rights group has filed a class action lawsuit against the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, alleging that the state is withholding treatment for hepatitis C from prisoners. "Over 1,500 state prisoners in Massachusetts have Hepatitis C, but as of the present time only three are being treated for it," lawyers for the prisoners wrote in their complaint. "For many of them ... the illness may progress toward end stage liver disease and death." Attorneys for the National Lawyers Guild and Prisoners' Legal Services filed suit in U.S. District Court in Boston on behalf of two prisoners with hepatitis C - Emilian Paszko and Jeffrey Fowler – and an unknown number of other prisoners with the illness. They argue that the state has been reducing the number of patients treated for hepatitis C and has delayed evaluating patients in order to avoid being responsible for treating them. The lawsuit comes as new and more effective medications for hepatitis C have become available. But those medications are also expensive. Read More. |
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