Prisons pay $350K for medical negligence
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, which oversees the state’s prisons, has agreed to a $350,000 settlement for a claim made by a former inmate for failure to diagnose a herniation of his spine. The victim was incarcerated at the Belmont Correctional Institution in 2008 when he visited the prison’s physician for numbness of his left leg and weakness in his left hand. At the time, the prison physician