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| Inmate dies after having tooth pulled |
| By San Francisco Chronicle |
| Published: 08/23/2004 |
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A pulled tooth led to the June death of a Solano State Prison inmate, according to a coroner's report released last Monday on what the inmate's family and two Bay Area lawmakers say may be an extreme example of inept medical care inside California prisons. In a bizarre chain of events that is still being probed by the prison's internal affairs officers, the extraction of inmate Anthony Shumake's wisdom tooth caused swelling in his neck that made it difficult to breath and eventually led to heart failure, a doctor with the San Joaquin County coroner's office has concluded. Shumake, who was from Richmond, died June 28 at Doctor's Hospital in Manteca. The coroner's report was released on the day Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger toured a maximum-security prison in the Sierra Nevada foothills, saying that the state's scandal-plagued prison system was "broken,'' but saying that he was determined to make corrections "more efficient, more accountable and more effective.'' Plagued by financial woes, questions about correctional officer discipline and overwhelmingly high inmate recidivism rates, prison health care has emerged as a major issue for Schwarzenegger's administration. A court- ordered study released two weeks ago reported that several prison doctors were incompetent and that medical care was shoddy in many places. Whether the case of Anthony Shumake is tied to those conditions remains to be seen. But both state Sen. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, and Assemblywoman Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, said last Monday they had multiple questions for corrections officials about how Shumake, who was serving a 12- year sentence for spousal abuse and stalking, ended up dead. |
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