AdvertisementTogether, the claims describe a US prison medical culture defined by a gross disregard for human life.
In dozens of cases in BI's sample, incarcerated people said they were denied emergency medical treatment by corrections officers or medical staff despite obvious medical distress.
But according to his complaint and internal grievance files, the prison medical staff denied Kirk's request to be seen at a hospital.
In at least a dozen cases BI examined, outside medical authorities, such as hospital doctors, testified that the medical treatment prisoners received was substandard.
As Mann's abdominal pain continued over the next two years, according to medical records, prison medical staff ordered X-rays and lab work but did not conduct a thorough oncological screening.
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