March 10, 2018 Boston Herald By O’Ryan Johnson Bay State convicts could soon have better access to hepatitis C tests and treatments after a prisoners’ rights group reached a legal settlement with the Department of Correction. The National Lawyers Guild, along with Prisoners’ Legal Services, sued the Massachusetts Department of Correction for failing to provide hepatitis […]
Massachusetts Department of Correction settles lawsuit on treating inmates with hepatitis C
March 10, 2018 MassLive By Shira Schoenberg The Massachusetts Department of Correction has reached a settlement with prisoners’ rights groups over its medical treatment of prison inmates with hepatitis C. The settlement requires prisoners with the most serious cases of hepatitis C to be treated within 12 months. Prisoners with less serious cases will have […]
More Prison Inmates Get Access to Hepatitis-C Drugs
March 10, 2018 Wall Street Journal By Peter Loftus Massachusetts state prison officials agreed to expand treatment for inmates with hepatitis C, in the first settlement among several class-action lawsuits accusing state prison systems of denying many prisoners access to costly drugs. Drugmakers including Gilead Sciences Inc., AbbVie Inc. and Merck & Co. since 2013 […]
Prisoners, Mass. reach settlement agreement for treatment of hepatitis C
March 10, 2018 The Boston Globe By Katheleen Conti Prisoners in Massachusetts who have hepatitis C could soon be treated more frequently and with more effective, and more expensive, drugs as part of what is believed to be a groundbreaking class-action settlement agreement reached with the Massachusetts Department of Correction. If the agreement, filed in federal […]