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1/ We obtained 408 pages of documents detailing 60 deaths of incarcerated people in the NY State prison system. The review found about 35 of those deaths could have been delayed — and in some cases prevented — had the people received better medical care.
Let’s explore this:
Let’s explore this:
2/ William Cullen, 40, died from a heart attack after a nurse sought an off-site doctor’s take on what to do after he collapsed and seized on the floor on April 3, 2016, in Clinton Correctional Facility.
3/ The nurse on duty took an hour to call an ambulance. “There has been an inordinate reliance on telemedicine use for critical patients,” the death report said. His family says it took @NYSDOCCS 11 days to hand over his body.
4/ New York State’s Commission of Correction investigates just a handful of deaths behind bars each year. It takes an average of nearly 883 days per case to complete its probes into the deaths
5/ That’s right around the statute of limitations in most cases, making it difficult for family members to sue @NYSDOCCS for poor treatment.
6/ It took the board more than three years — 1,183 days — before the commission completed its review into Karen Eason’s death on June 29, 2016 from a blood clot in her lung and complications of peptic ulcer disease.
7/ She was being held on a probation violation because she failed to pay a $500 fine after being arrested for allegedly attempting to fill a forged prescription.
8/ Her treatment was “inadequate with serious departures from acceptable standards of care,” the medical review panel said. Eason was repeatedly prescribed Ibuprofen and another medication, which actually made her condition worse.
9/ @NYSDOCCS has long struggled to fill vacant medical posts— from nurses to doctors to physician assistants.
Some cases citing alleged poor patient treatment by @NYSDOCCS medical staff involved high-profile people behind bars. https://buff.ly/3gYeJXY
Some cases citing alleged poor patient treatment by @NYSDOCCS medical staff involved high-profile people behind bars. https://buff.ly/3gYeJXY
10/ Stacey Castor, 48, who was dubbed The Black Widow after poisoning two of her husbands with antifreeze, died from an enlarged heart on June 11, 2016, in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
11/ Her vital signs weren’t taken during one visit to the infirmary after chest pains, “a violation of NYS DOCCS Health Services Policy,” documents show. Not long after, Castor was found unresponsive in her cell, the report said.
12/ Another high-profile case involved William “Bill” Brennan, 56, who died from hypertension and heart disease on Nov. 5, 2015, inside Shawangunk Correctional Facility, according to the medical review.
13/ The 56-year-old was moved in a wheelchair to the facility’s medical clinic after he complained of chest pains at approximately 11:40 p.m.
The nurse on duty waited until 12:21 a.m. to call an ambulance and failed to perform CPR after Brennan apparently lost consciousness.
The nurse on duty waited until 12:21 a.m. to call an ambulance and failed to perform CPR after Brennan apparently lost consciousness.
14/ His death and details of his criminal case were first reported here: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/racist-slayed-black-man-kissing-white-woman-bronx-church-article-1.2914595
15/ Abdul Majid was seen 13 times in a prison’s medical clinic for cold symptoms before he was examined by a “medical provider,” the death report said.
16/ His medical treatment was “grossly substandard with repeated failures to perform adequate assessments,” according to the death report. He died on April 3, 2016, in the Orleans Correctional Facility.
17/ Majid was convicted of killing an NYPD cop in 1981. His death and details of his high-profile case were previously reported here: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/convicted-nypd-killer-abdul-majid-dies-jail-article-1.2588287
18/ State prison officials say that all its 52 facilities have medical staff on site and prisoners can access them by making a sick call. But they admit there’s an overall staffing shortage and have agreed to make some changes based on the death report recommendations.
19/ We’ll keep reporting on this.
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