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| Maine DOC Facing Accusations In Inmate's Death |
| By wcsh6.com |
| Published: 11/18/2010 |
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WARREN, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Victor Valdez was a 52-year old inmate at the Maine State Prison, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who was serving time for assault. Leaders of the Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition say he was a "sick man", suffering from kidney failure and receiving dialysis. Maine Corrections Commissioner Marty Magnusson agrees, saying prison staff had to take Valdez to the hospital several times, as well as to regular dialysis treatments. That's about all the two sides agree on. Valdez died November 27, 2009, at Maine Medical Center, after being taken there from the State Prison in Warren. Inmate advocates claim Valdez had been abused, that his dialysis treatment had been stopped and he was put into solitary confinement in the Special Management Unit (SMU), sometimes referred to as the "super-max". Read More. |
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