Pharmacist in Meningitis Outbreak Gets More Prison Time

Pharmacist in Meningitis Outbreak Gets More Prison Time
Glenn Chin, a supervisory pharmacist at the now-closed New England Compounding Center, leaves federal court after attending the first day of his trial in Boston on Sept. 19, 2017. Steven Senne/AP Photo
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BOSTON—A former Massachusetts pharmacist convicted for his role in a deadly 2012 multistate meningitis outbreak that killed more than 100 people and sickened hundreds of others will spend more time behind bars after a federal judge on Wednesday lengthened his original sentence by 2 1/2 years.

Glenn Chin, former supervisory pharmacist for the New England Compounding Center, was resentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison after the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out his eight-year punishment and ordered U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns to reconsider the case.