Juvenile Prison Cited in Burst-Appendix Death
From Times Wire Reports
The state Juvenile Justice Department suspended 14 employees at a Miami juvenile prison where a 17-year-old died of a burst appendix after being left untreated for three days.
A department report said several Miami-Dade Regional Detention Center officers failed to provide emergency care to Omar Paisley in June after he was found in his cell vomiting and suffering from diarrhea.
Paisley had complained he was ill a day after being jailed for cutting a neighbor with a soda can.
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