Penal harm medicine: State Tort remedies for delaying and denying health care to prisoners

In prison and jail subcultures, custodial personnel are committed to the pe nal harm movement, which seeks to inflict pain on prisoners. Conversely, co rrectional medical personnel are sworn to the Hippocratic Oath and are comm itted to alleviating prisoners' suffering. The Hippocratic Oath is violated when correctional medical workers adopt penal harm mandates and inflict pa in on prisoners. By analyzing lawsuits filed by pris oners under state tort law, this article shows how the penal harm movement co-opts some correctio nal medical employees into abandoning their treatment and healing mission, thus causing denial or delay of medical treatment to prisoners.