3-29-17 Virginia:BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - A University of Virginia School of Law professor is representing a prison inmate in his fight to receive medical treatment for a life-threatening disease.
George Rutherglen filed a federal lawsuit against the Virginia Department of Corrections and Buckingham Correctional Center on behalf of Elmo Reid.
The suit alleges the Buckingham Correctional Center denied 60-year-old Reid the latest form of treatment for Hepatitis C, which is a viral liver infection.
Rutherglen says this is a growing public health crisis.
“We're really facing an issue of whether the commonwealth of Virginia can afford the harsh sentences that have been imposed in the past and, I think, the alternative is either treat these people or send them out into the world on probation or parole,” Rutherglen explained.
A federal judge denied a request from the correctional center and its medical team to dismiss the lawsuit.
A trial is set for January 2018. ..Source.. by Matt Talhelm
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