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  • Blog Post: Lawsuits Forcing States to Spend Millions on Hep C Treatment

    A federal judge in Indiana ruled this month that denying or delaying treatment of prison inmates infected with hepatitis C constituted cruel and unusual punishment, in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment. A similar ruling last year in Florida and settlements in Colorado and Massachusetts...