The Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — Medical care at a Virginia women’s prison is so deficient that it violates the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, five inmates claim in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The prisoners filed the complaint in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville against several prison officials and Armor Correctional Health Services Inc. The Miami-based company has a contract with the Virginia Department of Corrections to provide medical care at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women.
The lawsuit alleges that prisoners suffer prolonged pain and deterioration of their health, and that some inmates have died because Armor makes more money by denying inmates the care they need.
Full story: Inmates at Va women’s prison allege shoddy health care amounts to cruel and unusual punishment