Four Louisiana Prison Officers Charged In Death Of Young Mother

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Source: HuffPo

WASHINGTON -- A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted four corrections officers from Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish Prison on civil rights charges, alleging that they deliberately ignored the medical needs of a 19-year-old mother who died behind bars.

Nimali Henry was locked up for 10 days after being arrested on minor charges. Her family had been unable to afford the $25,000 bond. On April 1, 2014, she was found lying face down in an isolation cell just before 8 a.m. About two weeks earlier, Henry had been trying to see her 4-month-old daughter when she got into a dispute with another woman. Her daughter and her daughter's father were at this woman's house.

Henry was arrested for disturbing the peace, simple battery and unauthorized entry, and bond was set. But "nobody could come up with [the money]," said her sister, 20-year-old Deshawna Henry, according to a Times-Picayune report.

Family members said prison officials wouldn't listen when they said Nimali Henry required medication for a blood disorder. "I tried to let them know about how sick she was, and they wouldn't listen to me," Deshawna Henry said.




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[SamKnause]

1. This country is evil.

You never know when you will receive the death penalty as long as police officers

and jails are implementing it by their actions or inactions.

It is truly disgusting.

[DFW]

2. Civil rights charges?

They were told she needed the medication, and they denied her access to it. That is malice of forethought and pre-meditation.

Put them up for murder one. They knew what they were doing.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

3. I agree %100.

She had not been convicted of anything. Innocent until proven guilty, right? She should have been treated with respect and they should have had compassion for a 19 year old mother who's only crime was defending her child. It's bad enough being locked up, without people treating you like a terrorist. This is too sad.

[gregcrawford]

4. The psychotic malice...

... of law enforcement officials toward People of Color is an evil that must not be tolerated any longer. They demonize and victimize Black Americans because it is so easy to stir up fear and resentment in the room-temperature IQs that infest, like so many lice, the so-called "base" of the Republican Party.

But beware, indifferent white people; you're NEXT!