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Investigating neglect in Lonview death of mother jailed for traffic warrants, denied seizure medication

Brandi Grissom has a feature at the Texas Tribune on the disturbing number of recent inmates deaths at the Gregg County Jail in Longview - nine since 2005 in the smallish East Texas county - focusing particularly on the most recent instance, where a young mother locked up for traffic warrants died after her seizure medication was denied to her. The Texas Civil Rights Project recently complained that poor healthcare in Texas prisons constituted a "secret death penalty," and whether that provocative accusation is justified, certainly in this case it's easy to argue poor jail healthcare turned into a death penalty for Amy Lynn Cowling. And she's not the only one.Rather than excerpt and comment, those interested should go read the whole thing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 12, 2011 (boomark / email).