Oct 16, 2023
Jailed Man Loses Arms Due To Medical Neglect From Staff
Jailed Man Loses Arms Due To Medical Neglect From Staff
- 8 minutes
A man gets his arms amputated, cut off,
because of the neglect of jail guards.
Here it is.
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>> Speaker 2: This here,
it's like a body control.
It's an open and closed hook, but you got
to use your body to open and close it.
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This is how I eat with it, like this.
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Put a spoon there,
which is hard work, though,
trying to open it like this,
get that in like that, right?
Then when you're dipping,
just keep on doing like this, but
you got to try and get it back, right?
And sometimes it'll come all the way off,
so you got to do it again.
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It's really frustrating going back and
forth.
And that's why I just eat soup.
And I can eat fish sticks because I can.
When I get them, I let them cool off,
and I can hold them and eat them.
And if I got some instant potatoes,
I cut it open cuz I can
use scissors a little bit.
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I eat probably twice a day.
I don't eat three meals a day
cuz it's too much work for me.
>> Speaker 1: It's too much work for
him to eat a meal.
Put up the picture.
You see, this happened because jail guards
decided to deny him
proper medical treatment.
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Terrence Dwayne Winborne,
Minnesota County.
Minnesota County will pay a historic $12.2
million settlement after
a stay in the local jail
almost killed him because
of a bacterial infection.
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Now, keep the picture up.
I can't help but to notice that even when
he talked about it in the setting that
you're looking at now,
he seems not present.
Winborn has been trying to adjust to
living without his limbs since he nearly
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died in 2020.
His lawyer said that the jail staff,
that their negligence and
their failure to provide adequate medical
treatment later worsened his condition and
ultimately caused permanent injury.
The then 59-year-old was arrested
in the early hours of August 27,
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2020, for driving and
alcohol-related infraction.
He was held at
Scott County Jail in Shakopee,
about 25 miles from Minneapolis.
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Police officers conducted a breathalyzer
test which showed that his blood
alcohol content was at 0.13
higher than the legal limit.
Around 10:00 AM, Mr.Winborn began
vomiting a couple of times,
including an hour later when he
returned from his bail hearing,
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which his attorney argued was
warning of his medical condition.
They also noted that the vomiting did
not result from his blood alcohol
content level.
Despite his symptoms,
the lawsuit stated that the medical
staff did not evaluate him.
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In addition,
he also complained about his arthritis and
not having his medication, which was
taken away by jail staff upon arrival.
When his complaints were
sent to medical staff,
the correction officers were told
that the nurse ordered an inhaler and
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that he could have OTC, over the counter,
Tylenol the following day.
At about 10:00 AM on August 28,
Mr.Winborn was unable to stand
during his medical assessment,
according to the lawsuit.
He was stumbling, he was mumbling, one of
his hands was swollen, and he was in pain.
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And a short time later, he was
showing signs of abnormal breathing.
The lawsuit alleges that he was still
not given proper medical treatment and
was held in booking for monitoring.
Hours later in the afternoon,
Mr.Winborne had fallen out of his bed,
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said he was suffering from severe pain,
and continued to struggle to breathe.
He was then transported to a local
hospital, but he was taken into another
facility for better treatment due to
his severe symptoms at this point.
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During his lengthy months
long hospital stretch,
Mr.Winborn had to get both of his
arms-stopping at the forearm-amputated.
He also suffered from gangrene,
a heart attack, lesion and
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septic shock, among other conditions,
according to the lawsuit.
KSTP-TV reported that Mr.
Winborn's lawyers said that nearly
40 hours of footage connected to
this incident had been erased.
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The failure to provide Mr.Winborne with
constitutionally required care was,
we maintain, inhumane and
offensive at every level, his attorney,
Katie Bennett wrote in a statement,
the news station reported.
Per the outlet, Bennett added, quote,
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to destroy the best evidence of
the abhorrent conduct demonstrates
the need for the asked-for sanctions and
the size of this settlement.
While this settlement cannot undo the pain
and suffering that Mr.Winborne endured,
it serves as an important step toward
justice and accountability, and
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a message to correctional personnel and
correctional medical providers not to
engage in this kind of conduct
in the future, end quote.
Put up his picture again.
You see, while some people may
have seen a neighborhood drunk,
someone who is not worthy of
their attention nor care,
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even though they're sworn obligated and
getting paid to do so,
you should see a human being,
a person, humanity, the same as you.
But when you can't see yourself,
you can't see others.
This man does not or
should not have to live like this,
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but because of a lack of simple care,
you know how easy it would have been to
get him the proper medical treatment?
One phone call, because all they
had to do was follow protocol.
There's already a protocol set to do A,
B and C when there's a medical issue.
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And while some may talk about, and
I've seen some of the threads back and
forth, and by the way, Atlanta Black
started a great job reporting,
saying, well,
he put himself in that situation.
Please understand how
the justice system works.
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Whatever your opinion may be of
Mr.Winborne, here's one fact,
the man is innocent.
That's right, he's innocent.
You see,
he's innocent unless he is proven guilty.
So he's in the county facility for
a few days, and
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because of their negligence,
they now have to pay out 12 plus million.
And who really foots the bill?
The taxpayer.
Now you're really defunding
the police by way of the police.
All right, David, thoughts here.
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>> Speaker 3: Well, look, I think it may
be too much to ask, unfortunately, for
a lot of our fellow humans, for some of
our fellow human beings to actually show
some morality and compassion and empathy
towards somebody who doesn't look like
them, or maybe homeless or
drunk or whatever off the street.
But simply, even if you can't get there,
even if our society cannot ask people for
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moral reasons and humane reasons
to do the right thing, simply for
economic reasons, if you make that
phone call, if you take a step,
you will save your community money by
treating somebody on the front end.
You will save your community money
by not getting sued for $12 million,
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you save your community money.
And so, again, it should be drilled into
security guards, to police, everybody,
do the right thing on the front end,
even if you can't do it because of
your own morality, but simply for
economic reasons, to protect
the economic success of your community.
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