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| Virginia Settles Health Care Lawsuit With 1,200 Inmates |
| By wamu.org- Sandy Hausman |
| Published: 09/21/2015 |
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Hundreds of prison inmates in Virginia file grievances each year over the health care they get or don’t get behind bars. Now the state has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of 1,200 prisoners. It’s been more than three years since Abigail Turner, an attorney with the Legal Aid Justice Center, filed a class action suit in federal district court, claiming inadequate care had caused prisoners’ health to deteriorate at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. She said some — like 47-year-old Darlene White — had died. “She was a severe diabetic, and on December the 20th, 2011, her blood sugar levels were very, very high. A number of the women prisoners could see her, and kept asking for help, and they reported that later a nurse tried to insert an IV tube, and at that point Miss White was unresponsive. The nurse did not call for any emergency help," Turner says. Another patient, Jeanna Wright, complained to the prison nurse about intense abdominal pain and rectal bleeding for a full year before having a thorough exam. Read More. |
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