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| Report Finds Flaws in Medical Care at N.Y. Jail |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/14/2002 |
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The Nassau County jail provides its inmates with 'inadequate' medical care that could endanger prisoners and staff, a federal report said. The report, dated Sept. 17, said the jail violated 34 of 40 standards set by the Justice Department, including failure to screen for sexually transmitted diseases and poorly monitoring medications, The New York Times reported in its Wednesday editions. Other problems cited include failing to follow up on abnormal X-rays, leaving 30,000 pages of records unfiled and carelessly storing new and used needles. The study was written by Robert Greifinger, the former medical director of the state's prison system. The Justice Department has been monitoring the jail because of earlier problems _ including a federal lawsuit filed by the county after the fatal beating of an inmate in January 1999. In July, the union representing 1,100 correction officers at the jail called for legislative hearings into medical care given to inmates. The request followed a letter from a state agency that ordered the jail's medical housing unit to be closed. The jail is a complex of buildings located next to the Nassau University Medical Center on Long Island. It houses about 1,800 inmates. |
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