DiCLERICO, District Judge.
Angelina Ruiz-Rosa brought suit against officials of the Puerto Rico prison system and prison medical personnel after her eighteen-year-old son, Jose Luis Machuca-Ruiz, died of septicemia while being detained at the Bayamón 1072 Correctional Complex ("BCC"). In her amended complaint, Ruiz alleged violations of the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, actionable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and medical malpractice under Puerto Rico...
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