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BOP Guard, Nurse in Virginia Indicted in Prisoner’s Death
Loaded on April 26, 2024
by Chuck Sharman
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Medical Misconduct,
Failure to Treat,
Deliberate Indifference.
Location:
Virginia.
by Chuck Sharman
On June 6, 2023, a federal grand jury indicted two employees of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in Virginia for allegedly showing deliberate indifference to a prisoner suffering a cardiac emergency that killed him in 2021.
Guard Lt. Shronda Covington, 47, and Registered …
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