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| Unsealed report calls Idaho prison 'indifferent' to inmate health |
| By kplu.org - Jessica Robinson |
| Published: 03/20/2012 |
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A new report says Idaho’s largest prison provides such substandard health care to inmates that in some cases it may have resulted in death. A federal judge unsealed an expert’s opinion in a decades-long case Monday. In it, Dr. Marc Stern details a range of problems at the Idaho State Correctional Institution near Boise. He says patients there face cruel and unusual treatment. One inmate wasn’t told he had cancer for months. Another bed-ridden inmate wasn’t fed. And Stern said an emergency ventilator that should be used often was caked in dust. Boise attorney Walt Sinclair first took the inmates’ federal class-action case in the 1980s. He says the report suggests constitutional violations persist. Read More. |
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