article_snippet: In 2002, Judge Mark Wolf found that the treatment Kosilek was receiving in prison was inadequate, but stopped short of ordering sex-reassignment surgery, finding that the Department of Correction had not violated her Eighth Amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment.
article_snippet: Judge Mark Wolf found that the Department of Correction Correction had violated the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment by providing inadequate medical care to Kosilek.
article_snippet: The meaning of the Eighth Amendment is only as rich as the Eighth Amendment application, so those words that require prisons to provide adequate medical care are hollow if you have a district judge that makes the kind of careful fact findings that Judge Wolf did who is then reversed on appeal without a demonstration of the error in Judge Wolf facts,' Judge Wolf said.
article_snippet: Kosilek's lawyers also argue that the Eighth Amendment prohibits prison officials from denying necessary medical treatment to an inmate for non-medical reasons, including security concerns.