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Abstract: 

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin has twice granted summary judgment for defendants in an action for negligence, malpractice, and violation of the Eighth Amendment that was brought by Diego Gil, an inmate held in the Federal Correction Institution at Oxford, Wisconsin. The defendants are Gil’s prison doctor, James Reed, and James Penafl or, the physician’s assistant dispensing medication at the prison. County Policy as the Basis of an Eighth Amendment Action: Grand Traverse County, Michigan, had a written policy providing that, if any new inmate in the county jail “claim[s] a need for regular medications, a member of the medical staff must be contacted for approval.”

Keywords: rectal prolapse, postsurgical instructions, deliberate indifference, Ford, Grand Traverse, Dilantin, epilepsy, epileptic seizure

Affiliations:  1: Pace University.