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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Prisoner dies after physical altercation with prison officers

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Derek Achong
2 days ago
20250316
Arima Hospital

Arima Hospital

ABRAHAM DIAZ

A pris­on­er died at hos­pi­tal one day af­ter be­ing in­jured in an al­ter­ca­tion with prison of­fi­cers.

In a me­dia re­lease , the T&T Prison Ser­vice con­firmed that Aki­no Pur­cell died at the Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

The re­lease stat­ed that Pur­cell was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex (EWM­SC) on Fri­day af­ter he at­tacked a group of prison of­fi­cers at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison and they re­spond­ed with “law­ful force”.

He was dis­charged af­ter re­ceiv­ing ini­tial treat­ment and was tak­en to the prison’s in­fir­mary for ob­ser­va­tion.

He re­port­ed­ly col­lapsed in the in­fir­mary and was tak­en to the Ari­ma hos­pi­tal where he died.

The re­lease said that an in­ves­ti­ga­tion was be­ing con­duct­ed with the in­volve­ment of po­lice of­fi­cers.

“This in­ves­ti­ga­tion will in­clude a re­view of the ini­tial med­ical re­port from EWM­SC and the death med­ical re­port from the Ari­ma Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal,” it said.

“The Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons ex­tends sin­cere con­do­lences to the moth­er, fam­i­ly and friends of Akim Pur­cell and gives the as­sur­ance that a thor­ough and trans­par­ent in­ves­ti­ga­tion to de­ter­mine the pre­cise cause of death and to un­der­stand all con­tribut­ing fac­tors has al­ready com­menced and will con­tin­ue,”it added.

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