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Medical Care in Alabama’s Prisons: SPLC Finds it “Deliberately Indifferent”  


Author:  Staff Editors.


Source: Volume 16, Number 01, November/December 2014 , pp.3-4(2)




Correctional Health Care Report

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Abstract: 

In June 2014, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued a blistering 23-page report on this system and the result is a finding of deliberate indifference to the medical needs of Alabama’s prisoners; the lives and health of inmates are endangered with cost too often valued over human life. Soon after the SPLC and the Alabama Disability Advocacy Program filed a 120-page Complaint against the ADOC encompassing medical, mental health, and ADA-related, unaccommodated disabilities.

Keywords: Newman v. Alabama; “kite” for care; “Do Not Resuscitate” “Allow Natural Death” orders; communication of needs by the visually or hearing impaired

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