Brain dead inmate released from custody, parole cut short

Brain dead inmate released from custody, parole cut short


By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer


Last Updated: February 14, 2005, 06:25:16 PM PST


SACRAMENTO (AP) - An inmate who was left brain-dead after being shot by a prison guard last month was freed from custody and his parole ended Monday with an unusual decision of a state prison board.

Daniel Provencio, 28, remains in Bakersfield's Mercy Hospital, hooked to a ventilator and intravenous tubes.

But he no longer is shackled to the bed, nor guarded around the clock at a cost of $1,056 a day as he had been since he was shot in the head with a supposedly non-lethal foam projectile during a prison altercation Jan. 16.

"The whole thing is a tragedy," said state Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, who chairs two corrections oversight committees. "It's just moronic that we were ever in the situation where we were having to guard what for all intents and purposes was a dead man."

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Jeez.

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ROFLMAO !! . . . oops this is about somebody tragically shot in the head and left flat-lined! YIKES! Talk about state bureaucracies!

Indeed.

Okay. So who's going to call the shot (pardon the pun) to shut off the medical "life-support" devices? If this were Florida, would Jeb Bush rush in to file a new state law allowing the medical "life-support" devices to not be shut off? Or is the life of a prison inmate worth less than the life of another comatose/flat-lined person?

First they shoot him in the head with a "40 mm projectile", then the cost of keeping him alive is high, so they dump him on the Med-cal system and his family. Compassion for the family at least, would have been a start for what they have done.