Man awaiting mental health eval dies from thirst in prison

[Deepak]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...uled-homicide-troubled-jail-article-1.2798787

A Milwaukee inmate’s death from “profound dehydration” marked the latest troubling report from a jail run by a supporter of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Milwaukee County coroners on Thursday ruled the April dehydration death of bipolar inmate Terrill Thomas a homicide, WITI-TV reported. The county jail has faced allegations of improper medical care as far back as before outspoken Trump backer Sheriff David Clarke Jr. first won election to his office in 2002.

Fellow inmates told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel corrections officers shut off the water in Thomas’ cell for the six days before his April 24 death. The jail officers refused the inmates’ warnings that Thomas was sick and in dire need of drinking water, the inmates said.

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"Armor’s sole focus is the delivery of quality patient care," company executives said in a statement. "Our sympathy goes to the family involved in this situation. A component of quality care is respect for the privacy of our patients and their personal health information."

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued Armor this past summer, accusing the company of medical neglect causing five inmate deaths in a Nassau County jail. Company officials have denied those allegations, WNBC-TV reported.

 

[zorq]

This isn't the first person to die of dehydration while in custody in this very district either.

Yet 10 inmates died in the sheriff’s office’s custody between 2008 and 2012, a Journal Sentinel investigation found in 2014. One man died after his water was cut off, another man committed suicide after not receiving his antidepressant medication and a woman suffering from chest pains never received any treatment.
No staff members faced charges, and just two corrections officers received discipline in those deaths, according to the Journal Sentinel.

Fabulous accountability. Just Fabulous.

The Milwaukee sheriff in charge here, by the way, is actually a huge Trump supporter and spoke at the Republican National convention attacking the BLM movement in particular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ghccQ58jHo

Not that his politics are necessarily related to the quality of his leadership in his department. But isn't that something?

 

[Deepak]

Fabulous accountability. Just Fabulous.

To be sure this is a serious failure of accountability, but what really shocks me is the barbaric lack of conscience that it takes to let someone die of thirst and do nothing for days.

 

[barbos]

Fellow inmates told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel corrections officers shut off the water in Thomas’ cell for the six days before his April 24 death. The jail officers refused the inmates’ warnings that Thomas was sick and in dire need of drinking water, the inmates said

That would be hard to explain.
By the way, I googled Sheriff David Clarke Jr. He is a black dude, must that one black supporter of Trump.

 

[JonA]

But isn't that something?

No, not really. Because as the article in the OP pointed out, these problems are part of a history going back to before Clarke was elected.

 

[Deepak]

But isn't that something?

No, not really. Because as the article in the OP pointed out, these problems are part of a history going back to before Clarke was elected.

Yeah, I mean Clarke has a Twitter feed to manage and press conferences to make.

Surely no one could think that a decade and a half is enough time to make the sort of cultural changes where one's subordinates are trained not to deprive a person of water for days on end.

 

[laughing dog]

Can anyone give cogent reasons why Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin and former county executive of Milwaukee County has not seen fit to do something about this?