Summary: Kelly Coltrain is a 27 year old woman, who was put into jail for failing to take care of her parking ticket fees. 13 months ago, she asked to go to the hospital, but she was denied access, and as her condition worsened, she was "handed a mop and told to clean up her vomit." She died in her jail cell less than an hour later. Despite the fact that she was being monitored, nobody came into her cell, until 6 hours later. When a deputy arrived and saw that she wasn't moving nor breathing, he did not call for medical aid, or try to help her; he simply just left the cell. Coltrain lay dead until the morning, where the state officials found her. After an ongoing investigation and a charged lawsuit against towards the jail staff, today, they have come to the results that the jailers violated many policies when they denied her medical care even after she mentioned that she was dependent on drugs, suffered from seizures, and went through withdrawals.
Analysis: This article was produced on September 2, 2018, and was updated at 9:08. This assures us that the information is current and up-to-date. In 1995, a federal judge looked into the treatment of prison guards/ jailers to the cellmates, and he was astonished to find a high pattern of beatings, brutality,and violence. This relates to the event with Kelly Coltrain, because although she may have not been completely innocent, she deserved to have immediate medical attention and to live. In my opinion, it was cruel that she could have been left on the cold ground of a cell, to die, even though she had claimed to be feeling ill and in need of aid. This article was targeted towards to Americans, in general, to let us know how jailers have been treating the prisoners, currently and in the past. This article is significant, because it opens our eyes as to how and why prisoners are being degraded and wickedly defamed.
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/09/02/texas-woman-died-denied-treatment-jail/1182381002/
It is so sad to see that people are being treated like animals by other people. We should be helping each other and coming together no matter how much power the next person has,because even though she may have been a nobody to the jail staff, she still had a family that cared for her and wanted her to live.
ReplyDeletejust because someone is in jail for committing a crime does not mean that someone should be stripped of there right to live. this is an outrage that someone died under the watch of people who's job is to protect the law.
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