MARIA: MATTOCKS' AND HIGGINS'
EMPLOYER WAS INDICTED ON
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES FOR NOT
PROVIDING THE RIGHT SAFETY
EQUIPMENT.
BEN: 5 INVESTIGATES TONIGHT
PUTTING TOGETHER THE FINAL HOURS
OF A YOUNG MAN'S LIFE BEFORE HE
OVERDOSED AND DIED IN THE BACK
OF A SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT VAN.
REPORTER KATHY CURRAN HAS BEEN
FIGHTING MORE THAN A YEAR FOR
ANSWERS AND HAS THE VIDEO THAT
RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT SAM
DUNN'S CARE WHILE IN STATE
CUSTOD
KATHY: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE LAST
FEW HOURS OF SAM DUNN'S LIFE.
>> HE NOT TREATED LIKE A HUMAN
BEING.
HE WAS NOT JUST SOME NUMBER, HE
WAS MY SON.
KATHY: HE WAS DESPERATE AND IN
NEED OF MEDICAL CARE.
>> HE DIED OF APATHY.
IT KATHY: THIS VIDEO SHOWS SAM
DUNN IN THE ESSEX COUNTY ROCK UP
HOURS BEFORE HE OVER DICED AND
DIED.
-- OVERDOSED AND DIED.
THE 29-YEAR-OLD CASES QUICKLY IN
THE CELL AND AT TIMES HE LOOKS
LIKE HE IS READY TO PASS OUT.
HE ROCKS BACK AND FORTH, BANKS
ON THE WINDOW FOR HELP AND GRABS
HIS CHEST DURING WHAT APPEARS TO
BE SOME KIND OF SEIZURE.
HE WAS IN THE CELL FOR TWO HOURS
AND NEVER RECEIVED MEDICAL CARE.
THEY SAID THEY HAD NO IDEA HE
NEEDED HELP.
THAT IS HARD TO BELIEVE WITH
WHAT WAS CAPTURED ON THE
DEPARTMENT'S OWN CAMERAS.
>> THEY THREW HIM FROM PLACE TO
PLACE IN THE THEY DISCOVERED HE
WAS DEAD.
I DO NOT CALL THAT CARE.
KATHY: HIS FAMILY IS ANGRY,
FRUSTRATED, AND SEARCHING FOR
ANSWERS MORE THAN A YEAR LATER.
SURVEILLANCE VIDEO AND RECORDS
OBTAINED HELPED PIECE TOGETHER
WHAT HAPPENED.
HE WENT TO ANNA JAKES HOSPITAL
IN NEWBERRY PORT VOLUNTARY EARLY
TO BE TREATED FOR DEPRESSION AND
SUBSTANCE ABUSE.
HE INTO -- IN JUST ILLEGAL DRUGS
WHILE IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM.
MEDICAL STAFF DISCHARGE TO RENT
TO PETITION THE COURT WHERE HE
WAS CIVILLY COMMITTED TO
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AND
PICKED UP BY ESSEX COUNTY.
>> IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF MEDICAL
ATTENTION, AND YOU ARE IN THE
HOSPITAL, WHY WOULD THEY SEND
YOU SOMEWHERE ELSE?
KATHY: WHO DO YOU BELIEVE
FAILED?
>> THE WHOLE SYSTEM FROM ANNA
JAKES ON OUT JUST KIND OF
IGNORED HIM TO DEATH.
>> I THINK THIS IS HORRIFYING.
KATHY: LESLIE WALKER, THE
DIRECTOR OF PRISONERS' LEGAL
SURFACE IS -- SERVICES IS
SHOCKED.
>> THIS IS A EPIDEMIC.
EVERYONE WHO LOVES SOMEONE WHO
HAS A SUBSTANCE ABUSE ISSUES
SHOULD BE ON -- AFRAID.
KATHY: THEY EVENTUALLY LOAD ON
THE BACK OF A TRANSPORT VAN.
THIS IS THE LAST TIME HE IS SEEN
ALIVE.
SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM OUTSIDE
THE MASSACHUSETTS ALCOHOL AND
SUBSTANCE ABUSE CENTER SHOWS
PANIC SETS IN SIX HOURS LATER.
CAN DONE -- SAM DUNN WAS STILL
IN THE BACK OF THE VAN.
VIDEO SHOWS OFFICERS NEVER
CHECKED ON HIM WHILE THEY SAT IN
THE PARKING LOT AS THOSE HOURS
SLOWLY TICKED BY.
>> THE THING THAT TROUBLES ME
THE MOST IS THEIR LACK OF
INTEGRITY, THEIR LACK OF
COMPASSION BECAUSE ONE YEAR
LATER, NO ONE TOLD ME THE STORY
OF WHAT HAPPENED TO SAM DUNN.
KATHY: NEW PROCEDURES AND EQUIP
IT HAPPEN ADDED INCLUDING
CAMERAS AND TRANSPORT VANS.
ANNA JAKES WOULD NOT COMMENT BUT
SAYS PHYSICIANS FOLLOW SPECIFIC
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