Woman lay dead in a Nevada jail cell for hours after deputy found her unresponsive

[rollin74]

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RENO, Nevada — Locked away in a Nevada county jail for failing to take care of her traffic tickets, 27-year-old Kelly Coltrain asked to go to the hospital. Instead, as her condition worsened, she was handed a mop and told to clean up her own vomit. She died in her jail cell less than an hour later.
Despite being in a video-monitored cell, Mineral County Sheriff's deputies did not recognize that Coltrain had suffered an apparent seizure and had not moved for more than six hours. When a deputy finally entered her cell and couldn't wake her, he did not call for medical assistance or attempt to resuscitate her. Coltrain lay dead in her cell until the next morning when state officials arrived to investigate.
Details of Coltrain's death 13 months ago came to light this week with the release of a 300-page report compiled by state investigators. The investigation found that Coltrain's jailers violated multiple policies when they denied her medical care after she informed them she was dependent on drugs and suffered seizures when she went through withdrawals.

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a minor traffic violation shouldn't result in a death sentence
and the investigating D.A. from neighboring Lyon County didn't see any wrongdoing in all of this

[onecaliberal]

1. :

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That is horrifying. I hope her family sues them to hell and back.

[iluvtennis]

10. Exactly - what they did was just evil. Cops shouldn't be above the law. nt

[rollin74]

16. her family has indeed filed a lawsuit against Mineral County, Nevada over what was done to her

it makes my blood boil that, so far, these deputies have not been otherwise held accountable for their actions and negligent/abusive treatment of this poor woman

[GReedDiamond]

3. Score one more for the War on Drugs...

...and unpaid parking tickets.

JFC...

[tulipsandroses]

4. As soon as I read the title, I knew it was going to be a withdrawal seizure

So much talk about Opiates but as a detox nurse - I don't worry about my Opioid patients as much as I worry about my alcohol and benzo patients when they come in for treatment. Don't get me wrong - Opioids are deadly - and people are dying from overdoses - But my point is Not much attention is being given to Benzos - You can't cold turkey Benzos. - or alcohol for that matter. You risk having a withdrawal seizure. Seizures are not always deadly. But they can be.

Everyone involved should lose their jobs.

[tulipsandroses]

5. I just watched the video of that poor girl trying to clean up her own vomit

This is sickening. Why do these people still have jobs? This is inhumane!
This is what I do for a living. Take care of people like Ms. Coltran that are going through withdrawal. - Most of my patients, never get as sick as I saw her because they are medicated so their withdrawal never get that bad. My heart aches for what she went through before she died. She suffered horrendously at the hands of those animals. You would never treat a dog the way she was treated.

[dalton99a]

6. So what did they do?

In June, the Mineral County Commission voted unanimously to buy Holland an additional year toward his service for a cost of $17,853. The buy-out allowed Holland to retire with a higher annual pension and health care benefits than if it had been denied.

[ProudLib72]

7. I'm fine with tax payers footing the bill

as long as it is to keep him in prison till he dies.

[rollin74]

17. exactly. and that deputy that kicked the woman who was lifeless and and walked out on her

leaving her body there for hours is one sadistic pos. he should be locked up

[joshcryer]

11. The cops are cryonies.

This is a pure waste of taxpayer money.

What should have happened was that he would be fired immediately and pension be cut as much as it could be from a dishonorable discharge.

Instead they maintained the status quo, gave the guy a bigger pension, and to be set for life.

There's no doubt in my mind that this woman was hardly the first or last person he abused throughout his career. And I bet that they bought out his contract to hide that fact. People need to dig into this guys past cases. I bet a lot of them get destroyed.

[SunSeeker]

8. K & R for exposure.

[Shoonra]

9. Unfortunately, not unique ....

Mineral County Nevada is on the border of California and its biggest city is Hawthorne.
Even allowing some slack for a small town jail, the fact that the details (and most publicity) of this tragedy were kept under wraps for more than a year, by which time any alternative investigation would be very difficult, indicates the usual hankypanky.

Such tragedies - combinations of bureaucratic cruelty and indifference - are notorious in jails and prisons all around the country (especially in the South and Southwest). Jails used to make excuses and blame the victims, but juries have begun to catch on. Substantial damages for each such death, far in excess of ordinary life insurance, tend to encourage jails to upgrade and avoid more such horrors.

[lindysalsagal]

12. MAGA: "greatest" country in the world, in the 21st century, my ass.

Several people must be inprisoned for this.

[uponit7771]

13. Sooooo, "when they denied her medical care" ... and no one goes to jail for this shit ?! I bet the

... city pays out tons of cash for someones murder

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Putin will enjoy the irony.

"And the U.S. gives ME a hard time about Sergei Magnitsky."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky

[bobbieinok]

15. More and more people are realizing that this doesn't just happen 'not here' or 'not to me'

With internet, no place, no jail is isolated. We are being forced to see the world that many live in.

With internet authorities are less and less able to keep things 'just among us.'

The bright light of the internet and social media is especially driving relgious PTBs crazy. The blog thewartburgwatch.com reports on abuse of women and children in churces and religious organizations. And in denominational publications, in cooperative groups of leaders, the wail sounds 'Don't pay attention to the bloggers, to the gosippers. They're damaging the church.'