Inmates of Occoquan v. Barry

How courts have described this case

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• housing mentally ill inmates with punitive segregation inmates violated Eighth Amendment rights of inmates
• Eighth Amendment violation found in part because “inmates wait months for appointments to specialty clinics”
• deliberate indifference shown by sick call system which relied heavily on medical technical assistants by allowing them to diagnose and dispense medication without proper supervision by trained medical staff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).