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Abstract: 

Our review of recent court decisions includes a ruling from the 7th Circuit in Wilson v. Adams, 901 F.3d 816 that prison officials had no legal liability in the case of an inmate who found no relief from a chronic back condition; the court ruled that the number of doctors and specialists that had seen the plaintiff over the course of a few years clearly satisfied the deliberate indifference standard, in a clear victory for the Wisconsin medical staff and D.O.C. In the 8th Circuit, the court held that sufficient evidence supported finding that the warden, deputy warden, State Corrections Department’s Deputy Director, and Wilson’s case manager had been deliberately indifferent to plaintiff’s serious medical needs by failing to enforce the prison’s no-smoking policy.

Keywords: Unrelieved pain; Second-hand smoke

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