Patricia Bowman, Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Corrections Corporation of America, Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee

OPINION

BOGGS, Chief Judge.

Anthony Bowman was an inmate at the South Central Correctional Center (SCCC) who had a long history of medical problems associated with sickle cell anemia. Over the course of his incarceration at SCCC, Anthony experienced numerous infections, and was hospitalized repeatedly. During one such episode, on January 3, 1996, Dr. Coble, the medical director at SCCC, admitted Anthony to the SCCC infirmary, having diagnosed him with “an early pneumonia,” and on January 4, 1996, Anthony was transferred to the Nashville Memorial Hospital where he died a day later, at the age of…