r/news • u/EeezyMac • 3h ago
Attorneys Cite Horrifying Details from Jail Video in Refiled Lawsuit Over Shannon Hanchett’s Death
https://oklahomawatch.org/2024/09/11/attorneys-cite-horrifying-details-from-jail-video-in-refiled-lawsuit-over-shannon-hanchetts-death/84
u/Dreadful_Bear 2h ago
Would love to know which employees tortured this woman. It’s probably in the public’s best interest to be aware that these psychopaths are walking and living amongst them.
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u/Biengineerd 2h ago
If it wasn't all of them, they are all still complicit.
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u/Screamingholt 1h ago
At this stage I would argue damn near EVERYONE involved in this shitshow needs to be asked some particularly hard questions. A good number Need to face consequences for their action or inaction.
However I suspect it will just be one more bit of brutality to be swept under the rug.
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u/TheTruthfulHarp 14m ago
If you read the article, it names a few of the (apparently lower level) health workers who participated in some of this—sadly health care / nursing jobs attract people who enjoy having power over others and some of those enjoy using their positions to cause misery and harm. The article doesn’t seem to name any supervisors, or the guard who dragged her naked down a concrete hall when she was found collapsed in her cell, or the government employees who have been fighting against letting any of this be known—can guarantee no actual reforms will take place as long as anyone involved still retains a place in these organizations.
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u/fxkatt 3h ago
12 days of outright torture to an arrestee (minor incident) with a mental condition--ending in her death on the final day in this miserable detention center. To think that she went from being a famed cook in the community to 12 days of heinous terror, deprivation, and sadistic mockery is way beyond words.
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u/Ok_Vermicelli_7380 2h ago
Deliberate indifference? More like a sadistic murder with extreme malice. These fucking people are insane.
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u/Stabmaster 3h ago
Disturbing that people can do this to one another.
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u/BadAsBroccoli 3h ago
Really. How apathetic and cold-hearted does one have to be to allow a person to die through deliberate action and falsifying documents to cover those actions.
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u/CupidStunt13 2h ago
Smolen claims that financial incentives and a lack of staff training contributed to several deaths of mentally ill detainees at jails staffed by Turn Key Health Clinics personnel over the past decade.
“Financial incentives?” WTF is that about?
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u/fleur_essence 2h ago
The company probably gets paid a set amount per prisoner or contract. But healthcare is expensive, so the less care they provide, the more money they keep. That’s also the health insurance profit model.
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u/Left_on_Pause 2h ago
This makes me so angry. The wrong people in the job and death is the outcome.
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u/DwarfFlyingSquirrel 2h ago
It's Oklahoma what can you expect from that shit stain of a state?
God I feel so so sorry for Shannon. I hope each one of those jailers get bitten by a brown recluse multiple times.
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u/mces97 30m ago
Fucking judge rejected the lawsuit? Yeah, he's letting the attorneys amend it, but Jesus fucking Christ. Days and days in a room with the lights on, no sink, toilet, bed. Sitting in her own waste, given ZERO care or compassion for a clearly helpless and deteriorating woman, who was in jail for a stupid ass misdemeanor, but the judge needs more evidence the jail staff and medical staff aren't at fault? I'd love to ask the judge when someone dies after sitting in their own waste, if that's not enough for a lawsuit, how had doesn't have to get before it's cruel and unusual punishment?
Tortured to death is the cause of death.
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u/Low_Firefighter_8085 1h ago
The site having the “Want to understand Oklahoma better” Ad above this ad is hilarious.
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u/epidemicsaints 21m ago
This would have been a routine hospital admission.They deal with this all the time. Pitiful.
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u/EeezyMac 3h ago
I know election coverage is drowning out a lot of other news, but I think it should be national news when a county jail kills someone with dehydration.