March 11, 2008
Two inmates’ deaths probed amid flu outbreak at Chuckawalla prison
Corrections officials deflected charges of medical neglect Monday in the deaths of two inmates at a prison that over the past three weeks has been ravaged by an outbreak of the flu.
Some 740 inmates have fallen ill at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in the Southern California desert since Feb. 23, according to a spokeswoman. Officials have since halted all transfers of inmates into and out of the prison.
The wife of one of the inmates who died said other convicts told her that her husband sought medical help but was "turned away" before he succumbed to his illness last Wednesday, four days after the first inmate death.
LINK - SacBee.com (The Sacramento Bee)
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