Jail didn't save video footage showing cell of man who died

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Jail didn't save video footage showing cell of man who died

Updated 1:35 pm, Sunday, May 1, 2016

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An attorney representing the family of a mentally ill inmate who died at a Virginia jail is criticizing officials' decision not to save video footage captured outside the man's cell in the days leading up to his death.

Lt. Col. Eugene Taylor III, an assistant superintendent at the jail, told the Richmond Times Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1X2hyts) earlier this month that video images outside Jamycheal Mitchell's cell showed him receiving food through a slot in a door.

But when the newspaper sought a copy of the video, it was told it no longer exists.

Taylor says the video wasn't saved because it didn't show any type of criminality or negligence.


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[LiberalArkie]

1. Probably did not show anything. Like not showing food or anything.

Easy statement to pass lie detector test.

[HeiressofBickworth]

2. Missing Tapes?

Color me surprised..........................NOT!

Does Rose Mary Woods work there?



(extra points to those old enough to remember that name!)

[forest444]

3. Let me get back to you.

In 18 minutes...

[Judi Lynn]

4. Everybody's got to be somewhere!

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Accidental erasure.[/center]

[Sunlei]

5. guards can turn off water & skip meals. I think all our prisons should have 24/7 videos that upstrea

upstream to a national database that can't be controlled by the prison.

[47of74]

6. And make punishment for cutting off the video punishable by long stints in prison

[Javaman]

7. didn't save them or destroyed them? nt