Nevada officials sued over care at state prison

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The ACLU says 'grossly inadequate' medical conditions have not been fixed at the Ely facility.

LAS VEGAS -- The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action suit against the governor of Nevada and other state officials Thursday, alleging that they had failed to rectify "a pervasive pattern of grossly inadequate medical care" at the state's maximum-security prison in Ely.

"These deprivations are so extreme that they subject all the men confined there to constant significant risk of serious injury, medical harm premature death," according to the suit filed in federal court in Reno by ACLU lawyers from Washington and Nevada.

In December, a Los Angeles Times investigation based on records and interviews described how prisoners at Ely had been denied care for heart problems, diabetes and other serious medical conditions. Last year, a nurse was fired after complaining about substandard care at the facility, which she said led to one inmate needlessly dying of gangrene.

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Noel, who had reviewed medical records of 35 inmates at the prison, concluded that the conditions at Ely amounted to "the grossest possible medical malpractice, and the most shocking and callous disregard for human life and human suffering that I have ever encountered in my 35 years of practice."

LA Times

Increasingly, each day, more mind numbing news about the state of 'health care' in Nevada surfaces.

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1. An inmate dying of *gangrene*?

What the hell? I think Bible says something about us being judged for how we treat the least among us...though if our incarceration rate continues as it has been, those who are behind the walls may not be the least among us for long.