By C1 Staff
RALEIGH — A new bill in North Carolina would require the Department of Corrections to release the records of any inmate to the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office.
The bill was prompted by the dehydration death of Michael Anthony Kerr, according to WNCN.
Kerr was incarcerated at the Alexander Correctional Institute; he was moved to the mental unit at Central Prison in Raleigh, but when he arrived he was unresponsive.
His family says it took six months to find out that he had died from dehydration.
The bill was introduced by Rep. Larry Hall, who said “I saw and kind followed the story as it happened. It did not make sense to me. I just took it from the standpoint of everyone was doing what they thought they were supposed to do.”
After Kerr’s death, seven people were fired and two resigned.