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Death Without Dignity
Steven Long
其他書名
The Story of the First Nursing Home Corporation Indicted for Murder
出版Texas Monthly Press, 1987
主題True Crime / General
ISBN08771906239780877190622
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eus8AQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋On September 10, 1985, jury selection began for one of the most remarkable criminal trials in American jurisprudence. In State of Texas v. Autumn Hills Convalescent Centers, Inc., a corporation and five of its executives were accused of murder. The case was six years old before it reached the jury. The trial lasted six months and the approximate cost to the state and the defendants was a staggering $4 million. The defendants were accused of willfully causing the death of an 87-year-old woman in a Texas City, Texas nursing home. Also mentioned in the indictment were sixty other Autumn Hills residents whom the State of Texas accused the corporation of abusing and neglecting, their deaths resulting from improper and inadequate care they received in the nursing home. Death Without Dignity is the powerful and gripping account of this remarkable trial, and tells the heartbreaking story of the patients who lived out their last days in misery and fear at Autumn Hills. It is the story of a young assistant district attorney in Galveston who discovered the long-overlooked file reporting abuses within this home, and how he pursued the case against all odds. Steven Long's compelling analysis explores the brutal truth of elder abuse and neglect within some nursing homes, and shows how money, politics, and power perpetuate an industry which sometimes preys on society's most beloved and defenseless citizens.--From jacket flap.