Joel H. Thompson, Today’s Deliberate Indifference: Providing Attention Without Providing Treatment to Prisoners With Serious Medical Needs
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 14, Number 02, July/August 2012 , pp.23-24(2)
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Abstract:
In 45 Harv. C.R. - C.L. L.Rev. 635 (Summer 2010), Joel Thompson provides the best on-the-ground description of how private correctional health care providers work within the contours of the Supreme Court’s definition of deliberate indifference as articulated in Farmer v. Brennan , 511 U.S. 825 (1994).Keywords: Estelle v. Gamble, Farmer v. Brennan , 511 U.S. 825
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