BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana found in favor of a class of inmates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, who have argued since 1992 that the prison’s medical and psychiatric health care is so deficient that it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment “The attitudes of those in medical leadership” at the corrections department and the sprawling, 18,000-acre prison farm “easily demonstrate that injunctive relief is required in this case.”
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