From Vice:
Andrea Circle Bear died from COVID-19 four weeks after giving birth while on a ventilator in federal prison, leaving behind her newborn baby, a grief-stricken grandmother, and many questions about how the 30-year-old woman’s death could have been prevented.
Documents obtained by VICE News show that staff at the Federal Medical Center in Carswell, Texas, had filed a whistleblower complaint with a U.S. senator a week after Circle Bear gave birth, alleging that the Bureau of Prisons “knowingly misleads the American public” about conditions in federal prisons. The complaint warned that the BOP was taking a “cavalier approach” to quarantine that put staff and inmates at risk of contracting the coronavirus.
The whistleblower complaint is signed by Regina Warren, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1006, the union for staff and correctional officers at FMC Carswell, which holds 1,625 female inmates in varying security levels. It’s the only designated medical facility for women in the federal prison system, which is how Circle Bear ended up there on Friday, March 20. Continue reading >>>
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