Home      Login


Sex Reassignment Surgery Ordered for Massachusetts Inmate: First Such Order  


Author:  Fred Cohen .


Source: Volume 14, Number 04, November/December 2012 , pp.57-57(1)




Correctional Mental Health Report

< previous article |next article > |return to table of contents

Abstract: 

An unusual case involving a transsexual prisoner and the fact that Kosilek is seeking treatment prescribed for him by the Department of Corrections’ (DOC) doctors as the only form of adequate medical care for his condition.

Keywords: Kosilek v. Spencer, 2012 WL 3799660, responsive treatment, deliberate indifference, Benjamin Standards of Care

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.

Subscribers click here to open full text in PDF.
Non-subscribers click here to purchase this article. $8

< previous article |next article > |return to table of contents