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| Stun Gun Linked To Prisoner's Death |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/29/2003 |
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Repeated use of a stun gun may have led to the death three years ago of an inmate at one of Virginia's super-maximum security prisons, according to a report by an outside doctor. Dr. John Barnett was asked by Correctional Medical Services, a St. Louis-based company that provides health services for the Virginia Department of Corrections, to investigate the death of Lawrence Frazier at Wallens Ridge State Prison in Wise County, Va. Frazier, 50, of Bridgeport, Conn., was serving a 30- to 60-year sentence for rape at the time of his death. He was one of a number of prisoners from Connecticut being held in Virginia prisons under a state contract. Barnett's report is not dated, but it describes a visit he made to the prison soon after Frazier's death. The confidential report was made public last week, when it was filed in federal court among documents in a $204 million lawsuit brought by Frazier's family last year. The family is suing Wallens Ridge prison officials, Correctional Medical Services and prison doctor Larry Howard. According to the lawsuit, Frazier struggled with corrections officers, then went into diabetic shock and was hit with 50,000 volts of electricity from the stun gun as officers held him down on a gurney. Frazier was left alone, bleeding from the mouth, with his hands and feet strapped down, according to the lawsuit. He slipped into a coma and died five days later. Barnett's conclusion that the stun gun played a role in Frazier's death directly contradicts an assertion by Ron Angelone, prisons director for the corrections department at the time of the incident, that the Ultron II stun gun had no part in Frazier's death. Correctional Medical Services provided medical care to inmates at Wallens Ridge and Red Onion State Prison, Virginia's other super-max correctional facility, at the time of Frazier's death. The company was fined numerous times by the state of Virginia for providing inadequate medical care. Its contract was not renewed in 2000. Shortly after Frazier's death, corrections officials hired their own outside consultant, who ruled that the stun gun did not contribute to Frazier's death. Barnett could not be located for comment. A call to Correctional Medical Services' attorney in the case, John McChesney of Richmond, was referred to a company spokesman, who would not comment. A spokesperson for Assistant Attorney General Mark Davis and Larry Traylor, spokesman for the Department of Corrections, declined to comment, citing the litigation. |
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