To the family of Brenda Todd: please contact me ASAP.
To the rest of you: Pay attention to ASPC- Perryville in Goodyear. Marcia Powell isn't the only one who's died out there.
Thanks.
Peggy Plews
480-580-6807
prisonabolitionist@gmail.com
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It is so sad. An Alaska prisoner died in Colorado, Wesley Shandy at Hudson Correctional Facility. They said he was found down also and was alive at first. Then they said the autopsy revealed nothing and the toxicology would be available in two weeks. After that nothing was reported. My FOIA request was answered with claims of privacy for the inmate. Since when do they care about that and isn't it odd privacy only kicked in when the toxicology came into play? Interestingly the ACLU said the same thing in AK, inmate privacy. This from a state that printed personal information about me in a newsletter and descriminated against me for a disability in it. In Colorado the ACLU responded that the incident happened in AK when the inmate was in a Colorado prison. Thanks fro posting this information,
ReplyDeleteSome of the truths about Brenda Todds Death,
ReplyDeleteFirst and foremost medical system at the Santa Maria Unit of Perryville did fail her. They spent too much time brushing away her need for seeing doctor by making her wait with a submitted health needs request. Though the autopsy results have not been made public it is very likely that she was having a slow anafilactic shock to changes in her medication she was possibly allergic too. As the medication was building in her system so was her bodies swelling response until it cut her airway totally.
Secondly, she was a victim of staff inexperience. The State cross level staffing system left a three week rookie on the yard alone with Todd and the other 200 inmates on building 36. This meant that the rookie officer lacked the experience to determine the difference between sickness that can wait for medical to open the next day and distress that required the incident management system to be activated and get the on call nurse down there right away.
Third, this one is a shocker and goes far to display the incompetence of the DOCs internal affairs division known as the Criminal Investigations Unit. Santa Maria's Deputy Warden is Kim Currier. the initial investigator sent to gather evidence from Todds cell after the the rescue attempt was over was Jim Currier from CIU, Kim Curriers husband. Many of you may know that after Marcia Powell died at Perryville it was determined that the Captain and DW had to be treated as principles in the investigation and since then the DW of Powells yard never returned to service. So Jim Currier the internal affairs investigator had motive to conceal any implications of his wife's deliberate indifference to Todd's lack in health care. This was the biggest conflict of interest to hit the state since the private prison scandal of Jan Brewers policy adviser and spokespersons Chuck Coughlin and Paul Sensemen.
The officers that found Todd the next day did their jobs they initiated ICS, called for medical and began CPR despite the fact that rigor mortise, whitening of the cornea and swelling of the tongue had long since taken place. but when medical staff did arrive, the nurses and institutional Dr. Palmer did not take over. Officers continued to do their job until Goodyear Fire took over.
The DOC calls this an open case but they know all too well by now every detail, the cause of death and the breakdown in getting Brenda treatment. But despite this they will not close this case because they will be outed for their conflict of interest with the Curriers if any further actions are taken. This is due to the fact that many officers who were there that day witnessed Mr Currier head up the investigation.