Jail didn't save video footage showing cell of man who died
Source: Associated Press
Jail didn't save video footage showing cell of man who died
Updated 1:35 pm, Sunday, May 1, 2016
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) An attorney representing the family of a mentally ill inmate who died at a Virginia jail is criticizing officials' decision not to save video footage captured outside the man's cell in the days leading up to his death.
Lt. Col. Eugene Taylor III, an assistant superintendent at the jail, told the Richmond Times Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1X2hyts) earlier this month that video images outside Jamycheal Mitchell's cell showed him receiving food through a slot in a door.
But when the newspaper sought a copy of the video, it was told it no longer exists.
Taylor says the video wasn't saved because it didn't show any type of criminality or negligence.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Jail-didn-t-save-video-footage-showing-cell-of-7386609.php
LiberalArkie
(15,740 posts)Easy statement to pass lie detector test.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)Color me surprised..........................NOT!
Does Rose Mary Woods work there?
(extra points to those old enough to remember that name!)
forest444
(5,902 posts)In 18 minutes...
Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)[center]
Accidental erasure.[/center]
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)upstream to a national database that can't be controlled by the prison.