The I-TEAM is learning new details about the death of Rebecca 'Becky' Faircloth, a 62-year-old woman who died at the Duval County Jail. This incident adds to the growing number of deaths at the jail, with at least seven people dying in the past two years. The healthcare system at the jail has been under scrutiny since the death of Dexter Barry, who didn't receive his necessary medication and died shortly after being released.
Healthcare at the Duval County Jail has been under scrutiny since the death of Dexter Barry, a 54-year-old who didn’t receive his anti-rejection medication for his heart transplant in the jail and died a few days after being released.Monday. Rebecca “Becky” Faircloth was 62-years-old. On Thursday, she was sentenced to ten years in prison for attempted murder, having a gun as a convicted felon and tampering with evidence.
According to JSO, it appears she may have had some sort of medical episode. JSO says it’s unclear why she died and they’re waiting on autopsy results. But her husband tells News4JAX he thinks inadequate healthcare at the jail in her more than two year stay was a contributing factor.Over the past two years, at least seven people have died at the Duval County Jail. The latest death was Faircloth, when she collapsed at breakfast in what JSO said may have also been a medical episode.
Dexter Barry, a 54-year-old who didn’t receive his anti-rejection medication for his heart transplant in the jailAfter the fall out, JSO canceled the $98 million healthcare contract with provider Armor Health. NaphCare will start providing care next month. In June, before Faircloth’s death at the jail, she and her husband sent an email to the prosecutor in her case, detailing multiple disabilities and asking for leniency. She wrote that she suffered from Lupus; wasn’t getting a CPAP machine for her sleep apnea; and had an infection on her arm that needed to be rebandaged daily, but the jail said they would only do that two or three times a week.
JSO is hiring corrections officers, offering a $10,000 hiring incentive and a starting salary of about $45,000. Today, Sheriff T.K. Waters said fewer corrections officers are leaving each month.To improve inmate healthcare in jails, Trevisani recommends keeping arresting and incarcerating fewer people, bail reform, improving the quality of healthcare providers,, having clear standards in place, and independent oversight.
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