Industry News | 06.05.24
Jury Awards $400,000 to Escambia County Man Who Sued Prison Doctor
By NAMSS Staff
Fox 10 News (Mobile, Ala.) (05/22/24) Kirby, Brendan
A federal jury recently awarded $400,000 to Canyon Duff Moye, an Alabama man who accused a prison doctor of ignoring an injury that eventually resulted in a partial amputation of his foot. Moye was serving a sentence for theft at Fountain Correctional Facility in Atmore. He alleged that Dr. Manuel Pouparinas, the prison’s medical director, was "deliberately indifferent" to his medical needs while incarcerated from October 2019 through August 2022. Court records show that Moye suffered an injury in an automobile accident in 2015, resulting in lack of feeling in his left leg and foot. Pouparinas worked for a private firm that provided health care services throughout Alabama's prison system. Moye's legal team contended that Pouparinas' indifference exacerbated the the 28-year-old's injury, forcing the partial amputation to be performed in 2020. Pouparinas' attorneys unsuccessfully countered that Moye's foot infection had healed two months before he got transferred from the Escambia County Jail to the state prison system.
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