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CCA Sued in Death of Prisoner FL

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Fla. prison accused in inmate's staph death By BILL KACZOR (Published August 13, 2008) http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/255187.html TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ? The family of an inmate who died from a drug-resistant staph infection claims she contracted it because she had been deprived of water for bathing and toilet use at a privately operated state prison. A lawyer representing the estate of Emma Nobles, who died of MRSA Dec. 15, 2005, at a Tallahassee hospital, made that allegation in letters to two state agencies. The letters are a preliminary step for a possible wrongful death lawsuit. Water was turned off for days at a time at the prison for women in nearby Gretna, apparently as a cost-cutting measure, the attorney, Patrick R. Frank, said in an interview Wednesday...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).