Thursday, January 24, 2008

Prison: Inmate spends two days on cell floor and dies because he would not get up and get his medicine


Texas - 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. But only after he worsened and was transferred to a hospital did doctors determine he had suffered two broken vertebrae, undetected by medical staff. He died Feb. 6, two weeks after the scrap with guards. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace