Brian Rigsby's End-of-Life Care Struggle
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Prisons Routinely Ignore Guidelines on Dying Inmates’ End-of-Life Choices - KFF Health News
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Brian Rigsby , 46 , died of liver failure in the infirmary of a prison in Alabama .
His mother tried to get her son released to hospice care through Alabama 's medical furlough policy.
The private prison health company that has a $1 billion contract with the Alabama Department of Corrections transferred him back to Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore .
About a third of all people who died in federal custody between 2004 and 2022 had a do-not-resuscitate order.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons allows guards to override orders if they interfere with the security and orderly operation of the institution.
Prisoners in custody often can’t involve their families in end-of-life care decisions.
Moser called the infirmary to comfort her son before his death, but staffers told her he couldn’t make it to the phone.
Instead, Moser said, she left messages for prison officials to tell her son she loved him.
Two weeks later , she drove to Woodstock , Alabama , to collect his remains from a crematorium.
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