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.
Ziva Branstetter Kassie McClung March 1, 2017
After Elliott Williams died, the medical examiner’s office wasn’t given a video of his last hours or told the inmate had complained about a broken neck and being unable to move.
For the Frontier March 1, 2017
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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.
Ziva Branstetter Kassie McClung February 25, 2017
Former TCSO Capt. Billy McKelvey testified about his investigation into the 2011 death of Elliott Williams in Tulsa’s jail. The investigation found that dozens of detention and medical staff could have helped Williams but did not because of an assumption that he was faking paralysis.
Dylan Goforth February 24, 2017
While private prison company CCA reaped more than $2 million in taxpayer benefits, one of their prisons saw the deadliest riot in Oklahoma history. Meanwhile state prisons languished under financial difficulties.
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