I have just watched the video that the Holland Family put together chronicling Andrew Holland’s life and death in the SLO County Jail.
It is wrenching to watch how a human being was treated by so many so-called “professionals.” It would be illegal to treat an animal this way. Yes, it is painful to watch, but what about Andrew, who went through it all?
I see many “re-elect Ian Parkinson for SLO County sheriff” signs up in Atascadero, and I can’t believe these folks have the full story of the environment at the jail and what led up to Andrew’s painful death. I did not know all the facts myself.
Yes, the county settled with the family for $5 million, but what does a life cost? The sheriff and everyone at the jail—and there were many—who were incompetent, heedless, and cavalier when an inmate was gasping for air, should also take responsibility and have consequences for Andrew’s suffering and other deaths at the jail.
Lee Perkins
Atascadero
This article appears in May 3-13, 2018.
How many prison guards does it take to strap a ill human down an stand around an watch. What is protocol before what is protocol now. They banned straping patients down years ago in facilities. Why is a human naked strapped down freezing an defacating on himself why guards are walking by the cell. Are we living in the stone age or San Luis Obispo.
If this is protocol then lets strap down the guards naked in a chair for 46 hours for their training classes at jail why we the people watch.
If we dont elect new leadership, why would the existing leaders change??? VOTE FOR CLAYTON