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Abstract: 

Our review of recent court decisions includes a ruling from the 8th Circuit in Williams v. York, 891 F.3d 701 that prison officials could be held liable for deliberate indifference in the negligent care of an inmate whose severe dental disease was left untreated, and a 10th Circuit ruling in Havens v. Colorado Department of Corrections, 2018 WL 3580861, finding no intentional discrimination under the Rehabilitation Act in the transfer of a quadriplegic prisoner from a facility due to close, which had offered extensive programming to one designed primarily as an intake facility, which lacked the same level of programming but which was chosen because it provided the medical and health facilities that the plaintiff’s disability required.

Keywords: Dental Treatment; Transfer of Disabled Prisoner; § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

Affiliations:  1: Supreme Court of Ohio Law Library.