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Incarceration & Health

By Steve Hall

Two recent news reports have looked extensively at incarceration and health issues. Yesterday, Brandi Grissom posted, "Hundreds Die of Illnesses in County Jails," at the Texas Tribune. Robert Foster did not budge when a Gregg County jailer slid open the bean hole to deliver his lunch one day last August. The obese inmate was sprawled on the floor, his breakfast untouched. When the jailer opened the door, a stench wafted out of the cell. Foster?s flesh wascold. He had no pulse. Foster, 57, who had diabetes and a heart condition, was one of more than 280 Texas county jail inmates who died from illnesses while in custody over a four-and-a-half year period, according to data provided by the Texas attorney general and analyzed by The Texas Tribune...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 16, 2010 (boomark / email).