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According to ABC News, the Rikers Island Correctional Facility in New York City is facing a lawsuit after inmates became sick from meatloaf alleged tainted with rat poison.
ABC reports, 22 inmates at the Ann M. Kross Center, a housing facility on Rikers Island, were on lockdown on March 3 when they were served meatloaf that they said had a blue-green substance in it, according to the complaint filed by attorney Joann Squillace told ABC News on the inmates' behalf.
Also according to the lawsuit, the inmates said they then began to feel sick, having headaches like nausea, headaches, bloody diarrhea and bloody vomit, but they did not get the medical attention they needed, and their requests to have their blood and urine tested for poison went unanswered.
Squillance told ABC that one of her clients continues to throw up blood even though this happened nearly two months ago. She added that one of the inmates saved a piece of the meatloaf, that she sent off to a New Jersey lab called EMSL Analytical Inc. for testing. She said It came back positive for brodifacoum, or rat poison.
According to Nicholas Paolucci, a spokesman for the New York City Law Department, said they don't know all the facts, and we can't jump to conclusions.
"It's an ongoing investigation and we'll know more as we proceed in the case," Paolucci said.
In a response memorandum, the city said the inmates would "not suffer irreparable harm" because the medical staff treated them when the alleged poisoning occurred and determined they did not show "signs of adverse medical effects of a toxic ingestion."
If the inmates win their case they should just ask for a release instead of money. Who wouldn't want freedom instead of money?
Tamara M. Anderson
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