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TDCJ and Medical Care

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The Senate Criminal Justice Committee met in Austin yesterday to examine the case of Larry Cox's death in a TDCJ prison.  Mike Ward of the Austin American-Statesman reports, "Staff shortages get blame in inmate death."Texas' critical shortage of corrections staff extends to its prison clinics and might have contributed to the death last year of a convict who was given Tylenol for a broken neck and back, a legislative committee was told Thursday. Opening its own inquest into the death of killer Larry Louis Cox, 48, the Senate Criminal Justice Committee appeared shocked to learn that low-level staff appeared to have made key medical decisions because properly qualified medics were not assigned to the Estelle maximum-security prison near Huntsville...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 25, 2008 (boomark / email).