The News4JAX I-TEAM has been reporting on a number of in-custody deaths.
The Duval County jail, or John E. Goode Pre-trial Detention Facility, is currently located just off East Bay Street in downtown Jacksonville.– Local lawmakers and civil rights activists are calling on the Department of Justice to investigate possible medical negligence at the Duval County jail.Amid backlash, Sheriff T.K. Waters recently announced the healthcare contractor at the jail will be replaced by another company starting next week.
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, Nixon and Florida State Senator Tracie Davis asked him “to investigate the skyrocketing deaths and the reports of people not receiving necessary medication while in custody in Duval county jails.” Since July, three people have died in the Duval County jail — including a woman believed to have had a brain aneurism and two other inmates who had unspecified medical episodes.
JSO has since signed on with NaphCare, an inmate healthcare provider that’s already under scrutiny by the DOJ. It provides physical and mental healthcare at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta. A civil investigation into the facility was announced last month after an inmate there was alleged to have been eaten alive by bedbugs.U.S. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said the severe neglect wasn’t an isolated incident.
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