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April 22, 2014

Prison Officials Fired After Kentucky Inmate Starves to Death 
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A controversy has erupted at a Kentucky prison where an inmate has
starved himself to death. James Kenneth Embry began refusing meals
months after he stopped taking anti-anxiety medication around a year
ago. A prison doctor has been fired and two other staffers face
dismissal after failing to give him proper treatment and oversight.
Embry was 57 years old. He had three years left on a nine-year sentence
for drug offenses.

 

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