Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Office Allegedly Altered Evidence To Cover Up Denial Of Insulin To White Diabetic Prisoner Who Later Died: “This Is Jail. Get Over It.”
Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 02:53AM Readers, please add Maricopa County, Arizona to your mental list of places not to get arrested in. Yes, white people, even you.
Deborah Braillard, age 46, was arrested and booked on a minor drug possession charge in January of 2005. Despite being a diabetic, Braillard was not given insulin or any other medication or medical care for four full days, until she was eventually brought to the hospital in a diabetic coma. She died 18 days later of complications from diabetes, and her family’s civil suit against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office is now proceeding at trial.
According to the pretrial deposition testimony of the guards and inmates who witnessed the incident, Braillard was constantly moaning and crying out in pain, asking for help, repeatedly vomiting, defecating on herself and having seizures.