danielle
07-24-2003, 05:32 PM
Company to pay $450,000 to family of dead inmate
July 24, 2003, 10:54 AM EDT
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A private medical service firm has agreed to pay $450,000 to the family of a drug-addicted inmate who died after her heroin withdrawal went untreated.
Candace Brown, 46, died from aspiration pneumonia in September 2000 after being taken to a hospital from Monroe Correctional Facility in Brighton, a Rochester suburb.
Federal court records show Brentwood, Tenn.-based Prison Health Services agreed to pay the sum after Brown's daughter sued the company. Under the terms of the agreement, Prison Health Services did not admit wrongdoing.
In 2001, the Commission of Correction, a state agency that oversees jails, issued a 13-page report maintaining that Brown would not have died if she had been properly cared for.
Records show that the Monroe County Surrogate Court will distribute the settlement to the estate of Brown.
Under the settlement, both sides were barred from commenting about the lawsuit, Jean Byassee, general counsel for Prison Health Services said Thursday.
July 24, 2003, 10:54 AM EDT
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A private medical service firm has agreed to pay $450,000 to the family of a drug-addicted inmate who died after her heroin withdrawal went untreated.
Candace Brown, 46, died from aspiration pneumonia in September 2000 after being taken to a hospital from Monroe Correctional Facility in Brighton, a Rochester suburb.
Federal court records show Brentwood, Tenn.-based Prison Health Services agreed to pay the sum after Brown's daughter sued the company. Under the terms of the agreement, Prison Health Services did not admit wrongdoing.
In 2001, the Commission of Correction, a state agency that oversees jails, issued a 13-page report maintaining that Brown would not have died if she had been properly cared for.
Records show that the Monroe County Surrogate Court will distribute the settlement to the estate of Brown.
Under the settlement, both sides were barred from commenting about the lawsuit, Jean Byassee, general counsel for Prison Health Services said Thursday.