‘Devastating’: troubled federal correctional center failed to prevent death of man in medical crisis
by José Olivares from US news | The Guardian on (#6Z8VC)
Exclusive: In the third of a three-part special report, disturbing video highlights the death in Cibola of a young man suffering from mental illness
Private contractors at a federal detention facility delayed calling for an ambulance for hours during a man's health crisis the day before he died, video and records obtained by the Guardian can reveal.
Correctional staff pinned the bloody and bruised man to the floor in a medical observation cell for nearly four hours.
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