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Abstract: 

Arboleda Ortiz, a death-row inmate at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, fi led a lawsuit alleging that his serious medical needs had been treated with a measure of deliberate indifference amounting to a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. A different result was reached in the case of an inmate who claimed that deliberate indifference allowed him to be exposed to ultraviolet light that injured his eyes. Leonard Clerkley, a Texas prisoner, was working in the prison barber shop when Roberts, a prison official, left an “ultraviolet light box” for the sterilizing of utensils. Raymond Boyett died from occlusive coronary artery disease, with contributing cirrhosis, at the Washington County Purgatory Correctional Facility in Utah after being confined there for just under a week.

Keywords: pterygia, cornea, surgery, Methadone, withdrawl, Thorazine, Clonidine

Affiliations:  1: Pace University .