Authorities are investigating death of woman "found unresponsive" in South Carolina jail
Authorities are investigating death of woman "found unresponsive" in South Carolina jail
New details have been released in connection to a Sumter County woman who died while in custody at the Sumter Regional Detention Center.
26-year-old Hosanna Dinkins was found unresponsive in a cell alone at the jail. Jail officials say Dinkins was being held there on a probate order while waiting to be transported to a mental health facility.
Dinkins was not facing any criminal charges.
… According to jail officials, Dinkins was sent to jail on a probate order on June 28th. The order stated that she remain there until she could be transferred to a facility through the Department of Mental Health.
Dinkins father said he was told it would only take 13 days but 13 days turned into more than 30 days until Dinkins died in her cell on August 23rd. A preliminary autopsy from the Sumter County coroner rules out suicide as a cause of death and also shows no foul play.
Robinson says, “She should not have been detained here.”
So sad and so unnecessary. Our healthcare system is so broken. We need free universal healthcare just like all the other modern countries on the planet. Insurance companies are just ways for the rich to screw the not rich out of money.
While I agree, what exactly, in this article, stated anything about insurance?
This looks like a jail messing up (intentially or not) a transfer to a mental health facility.
Understaffing and sparse care locations are a side effect of the capitalist exploitation of healthcare over the last few decades.
Honest question cause I don't fully understand the process, but, if she was being held on a probate order wouldn't that mean she was refusing treatment? Which could happen even with universal healthcare?
First time I've seen the picture used of the victim that's not a mugshot.
Pretty sure I've never seen that before either.
First time I've heard of anyone spending time in jail with no charges, so no mugshot. But jeez, sticking someone in jail for a month waiting for space to open in a mental facility is crazy. When Kafka met Orwell.