The state Department of Corrections waited more than two years to notify state regulators about nurses who didn’t get an ailing inmate at Wisconsin’s youth prison to a doctor for days.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported prison nurses gave the 14-year-old inmate soda and crackers for days in February 2016 when he vomited repeatedly because his appendix was at risk of bursting.
The DOC notified the state Board of Nursing about the incident this past July after the Journal Sentinel began asking about it.
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The board waited seven weeks to process the notification. Officials put the notification into the board’s system Tuesday, the first business day after the Journal Sentinel reported on the nurses.
Corrections spokesman Tristan Cook declined to say why the agency delayed the notification for 30 months.
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