CASE 14.3
A South Carolina inmate serving a twenty-five-year sentence for second-degree murder was recently diagnosed as HIV-positive. He had argued for years that he should be tested and believed the correctional facility did very little to accommodate this request. Given this information, answer the following questions.
-The inmate sued the correctional facility and won, using which case, in which the Supreme Court mandated an inmate's right to have medical care.

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The Supreme Court case that mandated an inmate's right to have medical care is Estelle v. Gamble, which established that inadequate medical care by prison officials can be considered cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.

CASE 14.3 A South Carolina Inmate Serving a Twenty-Five-Year Sentence for Second-Degree