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Abstract: 

Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies as Required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act. George A. Jackson was incarcerated at the Sussex Correctional Institute in Delaware from 1998 until 2001. In 1998, Jackson fell in the prison’s kitchen, and he was treated for the injury to his back. Over the next two years, he experienced various medical problems, including swollen lymph nodes in his neck, that he believed were also related to his fall. Health Status Not Sufficient for Sentencing Reduction- Although the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines suggested 27 to 33 months' imprisonment for Thomas Coughlin, who had pled guilty to aiding and abetting wire fraud by filing false tax returns, the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas departed from those guidelines by eight levels on the basis of Coughlin’s poor health and sentenced him to five years' probation (of which only 27 months would be served home detention), a fine and restitution.

Keywords: deliberate indifference, Ivens, Woodford v. Ngo, cardiac arrhythmia, high blood pressure, pulmonary hypertension, coronary atherosclerosis, type II diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea

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