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Severe neglect leads to prison sentence – except when the victim is a prisoner
In November 2011, 82-year-old Maureen Quinn was found malnourished and dehydrated lying on the sofa with maggot infested leg ulcers. Medical staff said it was the worst case of neglect they had seen...
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Prisoner dies because Corrections reluctant to pay $300 for doctor on weekend
Jai Davis died from a drug overdose two days after being remanded to Otago prison in February 2011. The inquest into his death starts in Dunedin next week – on Monday 24 November, 2014. The hearing is...
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Police excuse for prisoner’s death – we didn’t read our emails!
Jai Davis died in Otago Correctional Facility (OCF) three years ago after internally concealing drugs in his rectum. In a previous post, it was revealed that prison management’s reluctance to pay $300...
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Solicitor General and police use fabricated evidential test to avoid...
The Solicitor-General, Michael Heron (left) has manufactured an erroneous Evidential Test which the police then use to avoid prosecuting selected offenders. The test is ambiguous, misleading and based...
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Ombudsman colludes with Corrections to cover up responsibility for...
The death of Jai Davis in 2011 has highlighted critical deficiencies in the management and nursing culture at the Otago prison. Now there’s an even wider concern. Documentation has come to light...
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Detective who wanted to prosecute prison staff taken off case
No one in the Corrections Department has ever been prosecuted over an ‘unnatural death’ in prison. In what could have been the first case, Detective Senior Sergeant Colin Blackie (right), who conducted...
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20 Corrections staff who could have been prosecuted over the death of Jai Davis
What’s wrong with the police? For the second time, they have announced they will not be charging anyone over the death of Jai Davis in Otago prison. Davis died two days after he smuggled drugs into the...
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If you don’t call the doctor when someone is dying of a drug overdose, is...
I’m sick of writing about jai Davis and how he died. I wrote to the Health and Disability Commissioner about the appalling medical treatment he received in Otago prison. I wrote to the IPCA about the...
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