Anyone taken into government custody is mandated to be protected in a safe and clean environment, and receive medical care if an inmate complains of symptoms.
The case of the young woman who died at the workhouse is absolutely outrageous and should be a wake up call to the elected persons enabling environments that violate very simplistic standards.
The public needs to get more involved in the conditions at the Hamilton Hanoi Hilton and at the CCA Silverdale.
The jail has pervasive human rights violations with people sleeping on the floor so overcrowded they are urinating over one another, and conditions that are completely unacceptable, The CCA is not appropriately staffed and that is how they run jails for less cost than government. As a result of sub-standard staffing, inmates are victimized in their custody. Unfortunately, government only responds to lawsuits.
I hope that Hamilton County Government, Corrections Corporation of America, and the inmates that caused this young woman's death are held accountable financially. If I am on the jury, you folks are getting your clock cleaned.
I am especially disturbed by the fact that the Hamilton County Government is investigating their own negligence. HCSD should not be investigating this death, or should the Hamilton County Medical Examiner. They are all from the same umbrella. Really, who gets to investigate their own negligence?
This beautiful young woman - a youthful picture of health in her mug shot, only 26 years of age - is arrested and a no bond issued for probation violations for petty theft, let me repeat petty theft. Then, she is beat up by four inmates, and did not receive timely medical care. I could just scream. I will never forget the woman that begged for medical care, and she also died at Silverdale from a tubal pregnancy. These are very treatable conditions; no one should have died here. The suffering these woman sustained is the real crime here.
This could easily be any our children taken into government custody, then murdered by savages over charges that are so petty. Hamilton County and CCA was responsible for the safety of this young woman.
We, the people, must believe that when the accused are taken into government custody on allegations of petty crime they will not be murdered.
CCA, your failure to act is more criminal than the petty theft. This is not the first time.
April Eidson
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A close friend of mine was incarcerated 33 hours over and above the court ordered 15 hours and described the conditions as being deplorable with inmates sleeping on the concrete floor and having to beg the guards to take a restroom break. The employees at Silverdale do not like their jobs and are taking their lack of proper training and compassion out against the inmates in a very hostile environment.
I spent three hours with the proper documentation to release my friend on time but the CCA employees lied to me and stated that they could not access the Hamilton County web portal when in fact they could.
I agree with April Eidson that the wolf is trying to oversee the hen house. I am especially disturbed by the fact that the Hamilton County government is investigating their own negligence. The Office of the District Attorney may have a hand in my friends excessive incarceration but it is only speculation at this point.
Jack Varner