[Tlc] TLC-Roxanna Brown cause of death

[justinm at ucr.edu]

It now appears that Roxanna Brown died of a perforated gastric ulcer, but 
> we don't know what kind of medical attention she received, after the 
> intake screening, as her condition worsened over the ensuing days.  In the 
> absence of a lawsuit, I'm skeptical about getting straight answers because 
> the resistance to outside inspection that is normal in prisons is 
> compounded by the extra secretiveness of this federal administration. I'd 
> like to think that what happened to Roxanna Brown would not have happened 
> in our state prisons, with which I work closely, but also know that 
> shorter-term jails and detention centers often fail to provide prompt and 
> adequate attention to prisoners' medical needs.  Some fifteen years ago, 
> an inmate in the King County jail died of acute peritonitis, despite his 
> complaints and the urgent entreaties of men in the surrounding cells.  It 
> would be shameful if Roxanna Brown died because she was treated like a 
> common criminal, because neither she nor those we call "common criminals" 
> deserve the kind of treatment meted out in many of our country's jails.
>
> David Lovell
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
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University of California, Riverside
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justinm at ucr.edu