What’s behind a surge of deaths at one Ohio jail?

_number8_, 9 months ago

cops

worldwidewave, 9 months ago

“A jail is not equipped to be an emergency room,” said Joel Pruce of the Montgomery County Jail Coalition, a community organization pushing for reform at the facility. “People come in with medical needs that are extreme and significant, and a jail is not equipped to deal with them.

“I think everybody bears responsibility. At the end of the day, [it’s] the sheriff, the county commissioners, county administrators and Naphcare.”

Naphcare, a private company headquartered in Alabama, holds a $13m contract with Montgomery county to provide mental and physical healthcare to people housed at the jail.

cops + for profit healthcare

Serinus, 9 months ago

John Oliver just did a great episode on what a scam prison healthcare is.

captainlezbian, 9 months ago

Are we allowed to get back to criticizing Dayton cops? I swear to fuck the fact that they managed to stop a mass shooting once made it so criticizing them got you called out for years.

be_excellent_to_each_other, 9 months ago

Our justice system is so fucked.

Pruce said it most worried him that all seven deaths at the jail involved pre-trial detainees.

“It means you are being detained in jail without being convicted of the crime you are charged with,” Pruce said, “and dying.”