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Coroner: California Prisoner’s Death Due to Starvation
Loaded on July 6, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2016, page 25
Filed under:
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Family.
Location:
California.
Ann Marie Patrick wants an investigation into the death of her son at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. Michael Stanley Galliher, 49, was found dead six days after he was transferred to the prison from a state mental hospital. A coroner’s report released on March 8, 2016 following a ...
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