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| Inmates improve; meningitis ruled out |
| By The Sun Herald |
| Published: 03/15/2005 |
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Eight state inmates hospitalized in Mississippi are now in good condition and no authorities are expressing any suspicions of foul play or serious communicable disease with the sicknesses and deaths of three other inmates last week. The inmates were serving terms at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville. "The patients are isolated and they are under guard," said Alexis Williams, Singing River Hospital public relations specialist. She would not commit further, citing patient confidentiality. The hospitalizations of seven inmates last week and an eighth on Sunday followed the deaths last week of three inmates. Greene County Coroner Clyde Gilley said an autopsy is back on the first inmate, Edward Johnson, 64, who died last Monday. "The autopsy showed he died of heart problems," Gilley said Monday. He said Sunday he thinks all the dead men had heart attacks, though autopsies for the other two are expected later this week. The autopsies are being performed by Dr. Steve Hayne in Brandon, consistent with Department of Corrections policies. Henry Lee Williamson, 44, died Tuesday at the prison hospital and Randall Laughter, 49, died Wednesday at Singing River Hospital. When asked about the deaths and hospitalization of eight others, Gilley said he wasn't aware of inmates at Singing River. He didn't consider the three deaths suspicious. "Sometimes I go a month, and then have several. I recently had two at a nursing home," said Gilley, who has been coroner for 15 years. "I haven't any suspicions of communicable disease." Corrections spokesman Nic Lott said Monday that tests had shown the inmates did not have meningitis, which is an infection of the fluid surrounding the brain and in the spinal cord that is spread by coming into contact with the respiratory droplets of an infected person. |
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