A NURSING boss at Doncaster Prison has admitted she did not know some staff had not been trained in drug detoxification.
Teresa Richardson was giving evidence into the death of an inmate a few days after he was sent to the Marshgate jail in March 2003. Stephen Brown, aged 23, from Moorland View, Aston, died from blood poisoning when he was taken to hospital in handcuf
fs after collapsing in the shower, a Doncaster inquest heard.
Mrs Richardson, director of the healthcare unit at HMP Doncaster from Dec 2002, was told nurse Yasmin Creswell had not attended a detox training course.
"It does surprise me that she didn't have detox training," she said, when she was cross-examined by Leslie Thomas, on behalf of Mr Brown's family.
Mrs Richardson said she had put in a programme of training. Ms Creswell told her she had done a course on drug detox, although she had not done a full appraisal when Stephen died.
She accepted there were pressures on staff with a large number of inmates with drug addiction.
Mr Thomas said drug users withdrawing from addiction usually couldn't sleep but Stephen was sleeping all the time. Mrs Richardson agreed her staff should have picked that up.
The hearing continues.
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