DEATHS IN PRISON

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Just want to survive. Now when the lights out, keep quiet? Better,
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Speaker 2 (00:30):
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or paperback on Amazon. In Connecticut, state police are investigating

(01:19):
the deaths of two inmates at Garner correctional institution that
occur within days of one another. Troops troopers out of
Southbury were called to the prison on July nineteenth and
twenty first reports of unresponsive inmates. Please say that emergency
life saving efforts were performed, but subsequently the inmates were
pronounced dead. The names of the two inmates were not released.

(01:41):
State Police said troopers were called to the prison around
two forty five for the death that occurred on July nineteenth,
and around ten twenty for the second. Police did not
provide any additional details about the two inmates' deaths, but
said the investigations remain active. Garner Correctional Institution host both
people awaiting trial and people have been convey and sentenced
for a crime. The High Security Facility is the consolidated

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care facility for adult men with significant mental health issues.
This is according to the Department of Corrections. A scathing
report by the DOJ Inspector General paints have pictured of
systemic and worsening crisis and deaths in prisons. Both deaths
were deemed preventable and blamed in part on staff negligist

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and misconduct. The Inspector General reviewed a total three hundred
and forty deaths, finding that twenty twenty one was the
deadliest year of the period analyzed, with fifty seven fatalities
compared with thirty eight and twenty fourteen deaths by suicide
or most common, making up almost half of the deaths
a little bit more than half of the deaths in
the eight year period. Stressor that contributed to those deaths

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included mental health struggles, desks with loved ones, plan transfers
to a different institution, deportation risk, lack of family support,
and sex offender status. The OIG found efficiencies and misprevention
opportunities and more than forty percent of the death by suicide,
citing a case in which a person would previous suicide
attempts was deprived of personal property items documented as being

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important to his ability to cope with life. The RIG
further said that more than seventy percent of prisons provided
no evidence that they had completed required mock suicide drills.
More broadly, the OIG found consistent failures and staff response
for a range of medical emergencies and nearly half of
all the deaths. The report found that seventy eight deaths

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in which there were problems with defibrillators, including cases were
staffed to not bring the device at all to the
emergency or it couldn't even locate them, or were malfunctioning.
There were about seventy overdose deaths during this eight year period,
forty five classified as accidental, in seventeen ruled as suicides.