By Terry Camp
WJRT
SAGINAW — Surveillance cameras at the Saginaw County Jail catch an inmate attacking a nurse. It happened last Sunday. That nurse is still recovering. The sheriff says he is always concerned about the safety of his staff. Its a staff that has been downsized over the past few years.
The bank robbery suspect who is awaiting trial appeared to be having a seizure when a nurse and a corrections officer went to check on him. Saginaw County Sheriff Bill Federspiel says on average, he has 10 to 12 corrections officers on duty inside the jail, watching over the 525 inmates there. That’s a dozen more than capacity.
Late Sunday afternoon, one of those inmates appeared to be having trouble.
“This individual feigned illness by laying on the floor and shaking which required us to go in and check on his status,” says Federspiel.
This is video of the incident. A nurse who works for Corizon Health Services, the company that has a contract with the county to handle medical care inside the jail, and a deputy went inside the cell to check on the 45 year old inmate. The nurse believed the man was okay, and started to leave the cell.
“As the nurse turned her back, the inmate jumped up, got her around the neck, grabbed her thermometer, put it to her throat,” says Federspiel.
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