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WATERTOWN — The New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project filed suit against Jefferson County on Monday for its denial of prescribed medication to people with opioid use disorder in the county jail. The civil liberties unions, on behalf of a Watertown man identified as P.G. in court documents, filed a federal lawsuit Monday in United States District Court, Northern District of New York, against Jefferson County, county Sheriff Colleen M. O’Neill, county Undersheriff Brian R. McDermott and Mark Wilson, the facility administrator at Jefferson County Correctional Facility. The suit claims the county jail’s “blanket” denial of prescribed medication to people with opioid use disorder, including methadone, is discriminatory and is a life-endangering policy. The complaint states P.G. brings the court action under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, Eighth Amendment and New York s

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