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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPost-seizure prisoner left in his urine-soaked cell to die after nurse turns away ambulance
A prisoner was left in his urine-soaked cell to die after a nurse turned away an ambulance, even though he had suffered several seizures, according to documents obtained by the Star Tribune.
Xavius Scullark-Johnson, 27, was three months away from getting out of prison when he died in June 2010. He was serving a five-month sentence for a probation violation stemming from a second-degree assault conviction. Now his mother, Olivia Scullark, is suing two nurses employed by the Minnesota Department of Corrections at the Rush City prison, as well as other medical staff and corrections officers, according to the Pioneer Press.
Scullark told The Huffington Post she filed the lawsuit because that's what her son, who suffered from schizophrenia and a seizure disorder, told her to do if he didn't make it out of the prison alive.
"My son has written me a lot of letters," Scullark said. "His seizures got worse there. He said if he doesn't get out of there, I should sue them."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/xavius-scullark-johnson-dead_n_1625547.html
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Post-seizure prisoner left in his urine-soaked cell to die after nurse turns away ambulance (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
Jun 2012
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As I wrote yesterday, welcome to American slavery v. 2.0. (This time around, though, the
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
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coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)1. As I wrote yesterday, welcome to American slavery v. 2.0. (This time around, though, the
masters don't even have to provide any maintenance for their slaves because the slaves have no value.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002842508
If this man was truly schizophrenic one can rightly ask just what in the fuck he was doing incarcerated to begin with.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)2. Depraved-heart murder
2nd degree murder is what they should be charged with. But hey, it's only a subhuman prisoner, right?
JustAnotherGen
(32,072 posts)3. He was mentally ill
And had a history of health impacting seizures.
We are collectively monsters. I wonder if that conviction had anything to do with the untreated mental illness? Alas - slavery by another name continues . . .