Posted on 06/21/2015 1:05:26 PM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
Whitewater figure James B. McDougal, who died Sunday at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, was in solitary confinement when he collapsed of an apparent heart attack in a jail cell, a federal prison official said. McDougal, 57, had been placed in "administrative detention" because he had refused to give a urine sample as part of random drug testing for inmates, said Todd Craig, chief spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
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He looked older than 57 to me. Hadn’t noticed that was his age. Possibly his health should have been a constant consideration here for the guards.
Somehow, I just don't think that was their highest priority. From Wiki
McDougal (August 25, 1940 March 8, 1998) died of a heart attack at the Federal Correctional Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, aged 57.Or, possibly another way of saying "Dead men don't tell tales"?Jim McDougal suffered a heart attack while in solitary confinement.
Left alone for too long, when Jim McDougal was taken out of solitary, instead of attempting to defibrillate his heart with equipment on hand at the facility, he was driven over to John Peter Smith hospital.
Not the closest hospital to the Fort Worth Federal Medical Center.
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