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Allegheny County Jail
A section instrumentality steadfast has written to the region Jail Oversight Board demanding an contiguous involution successful the jail’s alleged neglect of an incarcerated idiosyncratic with an incurable disease.
In the week since Pittsburgh City Paper reported on Denzelle Kendrick’s allegations that Allegheny County Jail aesculapian providers refused him indispensable medicine for treating his sickle compartment illness and near him unconscious successful his compartment for astatine slightest an hr during a life-threatening aesculapian emergency, Abolitionist Law Center Staff Attorney Dolly Prabhu says Kendrick’s aesculapian attraction has not improved.
“We are earnestly acrophobic for Mr. Kendrick's wellbeing,” Prabhu writes successful an email to the Jail Oversight Board, “as the jailhouse has not appeared to person taken immoderate corrective measures that we suggested—all of which were reviewed and co-signed by Dr. William Weber, a board-certified exigency doc connected module astatine Harvard Medical School, who has treated hundreds of individuals experiencing sickle compartment crises.”
Prabhu says jailhouse doc Ines Kananda called up Kendrick’s lifelong doc to reason that Kananda knew amended however to appropriately dainty Kendrick’s illness. She calls Kananda’s behaviour “appalling,” penning that Kananda “continues to garbage to adjacent spot Mr. Kendrick, and accuses him of lying astir his information and his pain.”
“Alerting the Warden to this concern has intelligibly not made Mr. Kendrick immoderate safer,” Prabhu writes, requesting the oversight committee analyse and intervene successful Kendrick’s situation, successful accordance with a state law authorizing the committee to oversee the wellness and information of radical incarcerated astatine the jail.
Prabhu emphasizes the urgency of Kendrick’s aesculapian situation, penning that “Mr. Kendrick reported feeling connected the verge of different acute situation yesterday. It is nary exaggeration to accidental that Mr. Kendrick's beingness is astatine risk, and the jailhouse has been enactment connected wide notice.”
Jail spokesperson Jesse Geleynse says Kendrick’s accusations of aesculapian neglect are false.
“Mr. Kendrick is nether the attraction of a doc done our wellness attraction supplier and is receiving each of the care, including medications, that person been directed for him by that physician,” Geleynse tells City Paper successful an email. “He has besides been seen by aesculapian unit astatine the installation galore times and continues to person visits and attraction from the wellness unit and the aesculapian provider.”
The Jail Oversight Board volition clasp its monthly nationalist gathering tonight, Feb. 2 astatine 4 p.m. successful the Allegheny County Courthouse.
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