Denver (AP) – Parents of a man who died alone in a Prison cell in Colorado after burning a hole in his digestive tract and left him in what they said was unbearable pain for about 15 hours fed the federal lawsuit on Monday and accused the nurses of prison and Sheriff’s foundations of ignoring his screams.
The Court accuses them, the officials of local administration and southern medical partners for not stopping Daniel Foard’s death by taking him to the hospital in 2023. Foard, 32, was a cook in the brewery and a user of Fentanyl, who was arrested for not appearing in court. After being segregated and monitored for withdrawal from synthetic opioid, he began to vomit and complained about stomach pain after being inserted into a regular prison cell, he said.
The Court claims that Southern Health Partners-Society based in Tennessee, with which she concluded a contract to provide health care in La Plata County-with prison by maximizing her profits in prison by suddenly having only one nurse and leaving medically harmless deputies to follow the sick prisoners. The company organizes hundreds of prison contracts across the country, and the action claims to be involved in litigation related to the death of at least five other prisoners at a domestic level.
The company’s lawyer, Shira Cittendon, said she had not seen the action and refused to comment on it.
Sheriff’s office referred to questions about court proceedings. In his statement, the region stated that he did not analyze the accusation of court And it does not comment on an active dispute.
Foard was found dead in prison 17th August 2023, six days after he was arrested.
The autopsy found that the Foard died as a result of a hole created by an ulcer in his small intestine, causing inflammation of the tissue lining his abdomen. Such ulcers can let food and digestive juices out of the digestive tract of the body can be squeezed.
Fentanyl, synthetic opioid, was found in Foard’s blood, but the autopsy report was not named as the cause of his death. Dr. Michael Arnall decided that Foard’s death was caused by natural causes.
August 15, 2023, although the Foard collapsed several times and had trouble becoming, he was moved from an area where he could be easier to observe because of his download problems and put in a regular prison cell, as we went, the court said. A daily nurse ignored the representative of the representative that he was very unstable, according to court proceedings filed by lawyers Dan Weiss, Anna Holland Edwards, John Holland and Eric Grossman.
After the representative delivered breakfast on August 16, 2023, he saw that the Foard fell repeatedly while trying to get his tray, the nurse came to check, he said. She noted that Foard announced that she had a sharp and pain shooting that was “10” on a scale of 10 to 10, but did not call a doctor or sent him to the hospital, he said.
The nurse moved the Foard to an empty cell where he could be watched, but did not say what he was watched and did not order any subsequent care or checked him, he said. He vomited all day and was moved to another cell and then the third, because everyone became so chaotic with a twist, he said. The watch video showed him that he crawled to the final cell, where he said he was constantly calling for help and shouting that he had to go to the hospital and said he was vomiting blood. The Court claims that no one has responded to their requests, but one representative could be heard in a video of supervision that told him to “try to intervene this drain” by his vomiting to prevent the cell from dirty.
Another nurse who worked on the evening shift went through his cell and looked in, but did not judge or provided him with care when he begged for help, the action said. When she entered his cell around 22:00, the Foard was dead, she said. She told state investigators that vomiting was normal for people who were withdrawing from fentanyl.
The nurse of the daily shift later told the state investigator that it was not uncommon, that the Foard should not check his vital signs for 12 hours due to the number of prisoners that nurses must provide care according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigations. She also said she didn’t think there was something else that she could do on the basis of Foard symptoms.
The founding of the Bureau was handed over to the 6th District Legal Principle, which would decide whether any criminal charges were guaranteed in connection with Foard’s death. It is not known whether the office has decided to make any fees. The AE -mail phone message sent to the district prosecutor Sean Murray was not immediately returned.
Jim Foard and Susan Gizinski said they said in a statement that they all wanted everyone to know about the suffering of their son to think they were responsible for his death for his death and change how prisoners were treated in prison.
“Only basic training in compassion for others would be a great start. But adding more employees is also critical,” they said.
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