Prisoner at Coffee Creek in Wilsonville Files Malpractice Suit Against the State

A prisoner at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville is suing the State of Oregon charging that malpractice cost her a kidney.

When Linda Bond was transferred to Coffee Creek in December 2013, she had already been complaining about intense pain in her abdomen.

Medical staff at the Douglas County Jail where she had been held had found that she had a large kidney stone.

Bond's suit maintains that when she got to Coffee Creek, her complaints about her conditions were ignored, things got worse, and she eventually lost a kidney as a result.

"The individual Defendants were deliberately indifferent to Ms. Bond’s serious medical needs in providing medically unacceptable treatment and prescriptions for Ms. Bond’s condition of kidney stones and the resulting infections," her lawyer writes.

"Because of the individually-named Defendants’ violations of Ms. Bond’s rights, Plaintiff suffered and continues to suffer pain. Plaintiff will likely have a decreased life expectancy because of the avoidable loss of her kidney."

Bond is in jail after being convicted on weapon and assault charges in 2013.