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| Disability Advocate Launches Investigation Into Inmate Death |
| By upr.org- Elaine Taylor |
| Published: 04/10/2015 |
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The Disability Law Center has launched an investigation into the death of 62-year-old Ramon Estrada, an inmate at the Utah State Prison. Estrada died on Sunday after failing to receive a scheduled dialysis treatment for kidney failure. “From what we can tell the third-party contractor that does the dialysis treatment simply failed to show up on Friday,” said the Disability Law Center’s Aaron Kinikini. “Where that should have raised some issues and triggered, probably, some safeguards that should have been in place, it didn’t. Nobody showed up on Saturday, nobody showed up on Sunday and it wasn’t until Sunday evening that they transported Mr. Estrada, and I believe five or six other inmates who were also waiting on dialysis treatment, to the university hospital, and that was too late.” The Disability Law Center is federally designated to protect and advocate for those with disabilities in the state of Utah. Kinikini said the center launched the investigation to understand how something like this could have fallen through the cracks. Read More. |
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