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| Prison inmate sues for hernia treatment |
| By Billings Gazette |
| Published: 08/23/2004 |
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A Montana State Prison inmate with a hernia the size of a watermelon is asking a district court judge to help him get the medical care he says he needs - treatment that the man says the prison has denied him. David Hill, 46, filed a request in Great Falls District Court Aug. 13 asking a judge to immediately move him to the Cascade County Jail and have him evaluated by an outside doctor. The suit states that prison officials have violated his constitutional right to dignity by failing to treat his medical problems and that he should be paid monetary damages for that violation. Additionally, he is asking the state to pay his medical bills and attorney's fees. "My abdomen and my belly button has swollen so much that my belly button has split open and bleeds," Hill wrote in a statement included in the suit. Great Falls District Judge Julie Macek last Tuesday granted Hill at least some of his requests. She ordered the prison to have Hill evaluated by the doctor of his choosing and to comply with whatever recommendations the doctor makes. The judge also ordered the prison to pay for the evaluation and to immediately send his medical records to Hill's lawyer, Sunday Rossberg of Great Falls. Diana Koch, head lawyer for the Department of Corrections, said that while she has not seen the judge's order, the department will comply with it. |
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