Doctors: Williams’ death in jail was preventable
Williams wasn’t treated with dignity by jail or medical staff, Allen said. Jail staff failed to ensure Williams had food and water, and didn’t clean him up properly when he defecated on himself.
Kassie McClung March 3, 2017
Williams wasn’t treated with dignity by jail or medical staff, Allen said. Jail staff failed to ensure Williams had food and water, and didn’t clean him up properly when he defecated on himself.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter March 2, 2017
Former Sheriff Stanley Glanz testified Thursday that he didn’t watch the video of Elliott Williams dying in his jail cell until a year and a half later when preparing for a deposition. He said his staff didn’t tell him to watch it.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter February 28, 2017
Records and interviews with jail staff paint conflicting pictures of what kind of care Williams received at the jail.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter February 27, 2017
Billy McKelvey, a former Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office captain, testified Monday that the Sheriff’s Office falsified several documents involving Elliott Williams’ death.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter February 23, 2017
During the first day of testimony in a federal trial, jurors watched a 10 minute video of Elliott Williams trying to reach food and water as he lay paralyzed on the floor of his Tulsa jail cell.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter February 22, 2017
The jury is made up of five women and five men. Attorneys clashed Wednesday over attempts by the defense to remove all three black jurors from the pool.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter February 20, 2017
The 10 cases reviewed by The Frontier add up to one in three inmate deaths in the last decade that experts and medical records state might have been prevented with better care.
Kassie McClung Ziva Branstetter February 16, 2017
Attorneys for the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office asserted the video actually failed to capture Williams moving around, eating and drinking despite his apparent paralysis.
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