MON: Metropolitan Detention Center still providing unconstitutionally inadequate medical care, report shows, + More

Metropolitan Detention Center still providing unconstitutionally inadequate medical care, report shows – Gillian Barkhurst, Albuquerque Journal

The Metropolitan Detention Center’s biannual health care audit found that the jail is still providing an unconstitutionally poor quality of health care for inmates and that “progress is slowing.”

Since the last audit, major understaffing and lack of cooperation between security and medical staff are still concerns, wrote Dr. Muthusamy Anandkumar in an April report…

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