KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kevin Strickland, who was freed from prison in November after suffering Missouri's longest known wrongful conviction, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the state's prison medical provider, alleging it neglected his serious back needs.
In the federal lawsuit, attorneys for 62-year-old Strickland, who now uses a wheelchair, said Corizon disregarded his back problems that stemmed from spinal stenosis and neurologic deficits. He was denied off-site evaluation and specialty care, they claimed.
Strickland was released Nov. 23 from the Western Missouri Correctional Center after he spent more than 43 years behind bars for a triple murder in Kansas City that Jackson County prosecutors determined he did not commit.