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As you would expect, Scott Henson has the latest on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice including a coming big change in prisoners' access to telephones and a shortage of doctors for the prison system. The Houston Chronicle reports, "Injured inmate spent two days on cell floor," by Roma Khanna.For two days after a physical confrontation with Texas prison guards, inmate Larry Louis Cox lay on a mattress on his cell floor, in his waste, with medical staff reporting he "refused" medication because he could not stand and come to the door to receive it. According to records obtained by the Chronicle, Cox complained that he was paralyzed. But only after he worsened and was transferred to a hospital did doctors determine he had suffered two broken vertebrae, undetected by medical staff...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 24, 2008 (boomark / email).