They Let a Sick Inmate Die in a Van. Now They Won’t Pay His Family $650,000.

Johnny Smith spent almost 24 hours shackled in the back of a prison van — barely conscious and muttering incoherently — before he died there in 2011. A private company was hauling Mr. Smith, 48, to Florida from Kentucky to face a drug charge: possession of a single oxycodone pill.

from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/prison-van-death.html
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