Died in jail or a lockup
Albert Wilder
Albert Wilder died in 2012 while held at the Rockdale County Jail in Georgia. He complained of severe abdominal pain and was prescribed a laxative, the Macon Telegraph reported. After he began vomiting blood and was placed in observation, he was not given X-rays or other diagnostic tests, according to the same report. He went into septic shock and died of a perforated ulcer. His death was one of three at the jail that year.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness (neglect alleged). Jail staff gave him a laxative for severe abdominal pain and did not order X-rays or other tests after he began vomiting blood.