A Nevada prisoner died after he was pepper-sprayed by guards, shut in a storage room, shackled and restrained with his face to the ground, according to an autopsy report obtained by The Associated Press.
Patrick Odale’s death on Dec. 28, 2023, at the Southern Desert Correctional Center has been ruled a homicide.
The autopsy report finalized in late August follows a nearly nine-month coroner investigation into Odale’s death at the mostly medium security prison near Las Vegas. The Clark County coroner’s office found Odale, who was 39, died of “ positional and mechanical asphyxia in the setting of law enforcement restraint.”
I truly wish the guard recieve the sentence they deserve, instead of a immunity and a paied break, like the police.
Same thing happened at a Canadian prison and the guard was found not guilty yesterday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/robert-morden-william-ahmo-trial-decision-1.7314644
Jesus fucking christ
‘The chief medical examiner ruled it a homicide. Yet today’s decision tells the world that the rights and dignity of First Nations people and that a ruling by a chief medical examiner can be disregarded without consequence. So that bothers me," Merrick told reporters outside court.’
And right after Cathy Merrick said this she collapsed and died in front of the Winnipeg courthouse.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/amc-grand-chief-cathy-merrick-collapses-1.7315807
Idk if anyone reading this outside the US has seen or read the Shawshank Redemption, but the most unrealistic thing about that story was the happy ending. Lotta terrible shit going on inside US prisons.
In the US prisons are treated as hell on Earth. Damnation for those deemed wicked.
You literally have to join a gang to survive in a US prison. It ruins you and makes you far more likely to return
Serial rape is considered a part of the punishment. It is tax-funded hell
It is a tax-funded privately-owned hell.
Ftfy
Nine months to determine what’s blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention, especially given the EXTREMELY suspicious gap in the footage! 🤬
According to the autopsy, prison and medical staff administered Narcan, an overdose-reversing drug, several times.
I don’t think it’s meant to be used multiple times, but I don’t know anything about it. Does anyone know?
Iirc fentanyl/carfentanil ODs often require multiple doses.
They do, and they’ll often talk about how many it took to get someone breathing again as a reference to how strong the OD was.
Thanks for clarifying!
Narcan won’t counteract pepper spray or positional asphyxia. They killed him and then tried to res him with the wrong spell.
