Posted on 06/19/2008 2:34:30 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Calling from a Tarrant County Jail phone in early June, Adrienne Lemons chatted with her 3-year-old son, Chase, and told her ex-husband in Louisiana that she was not getting antibiotics for an infection.
The Dallas woman, 35, was in jail because of unpaid traffic tickets. Ten days after being booked, she was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital, where she died within hours.
Lemons’ relatives said Wednesday that they still don’t know why she didn’t get medical help sooner.
"It is a tragic thing that my sister goes in for some traffic tickets and comes out dead," said her brother Shannon Woodrome, 37, of Little Elm. "I can see an infection killing someone in the 1600s or the 1700s, but that shouldn’t happen today."
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The fact that something went wrong while in jail is undeniable and tragic, but the fact that she was in jail threatening suicide is her contribution to the tragedy.
If my bout with MRSA had gone untreated I would have killed myself as well.
I was lucky, I wasn’t denied medication.
People do have the right to peaceably travel on the formerly public (now government) roads.
Wars were fought and decades-long civil disturbances occurred over this.
If you don't like it, I can't help you.
This isnt about a Ruby Ridge or the civil war, its about an inmate that had some sort of infection that was treated poorly and died because the severity of the problem was underestimated. Not a "bad governmnent" thing dude, just poorly run jail.
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