SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s prison director says he’ll fire someone if needed after he investigates the death of an inmate who went without dialysis for two days when providers failed to show up for treatment.
Rollin Cook, the executive director of Utah’s Department of Corrections, told The Associated Press on Thursday that it’s too early to say if someone will lose their job.
Cook says the prison has Spanish-speaking staff, but he doesn’t know if any were on hand when 62-year-old Ramon C. Estrada didn’t get dialysis treatment on Friday and Saturday.
Estrada was from Mexico and relied on translators while in court on rape charges and at a 2008 parole hearing.
Estrada died Sunday at the prison from an apparent heart attack related to kidney failure. He would have been paroled on April 21.
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