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NJ must revamp medical services
By The Star-Ledger Staff
Published: 02/28/2007

TRENTON, NJ - Criticizing the state for trying to shirk its responsibility to provide inmates with adequate health care, the New Jersey Supreme Court yesterday ordered the prison system to develop regulations on how to notify inmates when they have a serious medical condition.

In its unanimous ruling, the high court also ordered the Department of Corrections to give in mates access to their complete medical records and to correct those records if they are inaccurate, since both are "essential to the notion" of adequate medical care. Read more.

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