GARWOOD, Circuit Judge: George Thompkins brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that his Eighth Amendment rights were violated because he was denied access to medical treatment for a back injury he suffered while he was incarcerated in a Louisiana parish jail. Thompkins named as defendants the parish sheriff, Bill Belt, and Belt’s…
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