Rodrick Pendleton
Rodrick Pendleton, a 51-year-old father and former truck driver, died in June 2015 at Boston Medical Center after being held at the Suffolk County House of Correction in Massachusetts, where the cause of death was given as a bowel obstruction. According to accounts from his family, he was sick for days in the jail's medical unit and was ignored and sent to the hospital too late. His sister, Janice Pendleton, spent years trying to learn how he died and has said the staff who saw him struggling should be held accountable. WBUR reported that the sheriff's office did not alert the district attorney to his death, as protocol would normally require.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness (neglect alleged). Staff allegedly ignored him while he was sick and sent him to the hospital too late, according to unnamed accounts, and no source is named for the bowel obstruction cause.