Federal courts have allowed prisons and private medical contractors to neglect prisoner health

Federal courts have allowed prisons and private medical contractors to neglect prisoner health

Octavio Jones for Business Insider

On the morning of March 16, 2015, the night-shift nurses of Martin Correctional Institution clustered in the medical exam room to brief Robert Silvis, the prison's nursing director. Silvis had just started his shift at the facility in Indiantown, Florida, and the nurses looked stunned. They explained, as well as they could, what had occurred the night before.

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