March 14, 2008
Suit alleges San Quentin inmate died due to poor medical care
The mother of a San Quentin State Prison inmate has filed suit alleging that her son died in 2006 because he received inadequate care for his diabetes. "I can't get over the feeling that my son was essentially murdered by the prison system," said Christine Goodwin of Modesto.
Her son, Scott Fitzgerald, who was in custody at San Quentin due to a parole violation following a battery conviction, died Sept. 12, 2006, after being taken by ambulance to Marin General Hospital. Fitzgerald was 34 when he died.
The suit pending in U.S. District Court in San Francisco names San Quentin Warden Robert Ayers, other prison personnel and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as defendants.
LINK - MarinIJ.com (Marin Independent Journal)
