A Needless Death at Rikers: Corizon Contract Ended
Author: Staff Editors.
Source: Volume 17, Number 01, November/December 2015 , pp.3-3(1)
< previous article |next article > |return to table of contents
Abstract:
Bradley Ballard, 39, diagnosed schizophrenic and diabetic, was not given his medication while confined under mental observation at Riker’s Island subsequently dies from diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). The New YorkCity Medical Examiner rules that the manner of death is, indeed, a homicide directly caused by the compounded failures of NYC DOC and its contracted medical provider, Corizon Inc.Keywords: highest blood sugar levels coroners had ever seen; severe tissue necrosis; lactic acidosis
Affiliations:
.