Legal Issues

Suit Challenges Women's Health Care In Prisons

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 17th, 1995

While acknowledging that all publicly funded health care is suffering from budget-related problems, a federal lawsuit charges that there is no excuse for the shoddy level of care in women's prisons.

Women at Chowchilla and Frontera prisons in California, are denied decent health care and pain medication, and are treated by ill-trained and indifferent staff, lawyers charged recently in a federal court suit.

Filed on behalf of the 6,100 prisoners at the two prisons, the suit accuses state officials of maintaining a system of grossly inadequate care that violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-04-17)

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