After 23-year-old Brandon Alexander Dominguez died an inmate of Denton County Jail, Denton, Texas, on August 18, 2021, a Custodial Death Report was prepared. A possible cause of death was listed as diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).  

A unique study of a dozen deaths in a state outside Texas focused on the possibility that the inmates died of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).

Details of a DKA-Related Death – 3

A 41-year-old inmate at a county jail in the state where the DKA study took place was in the jail’s custody for only eight days before his death. An investigation showed that friends knew of the care the man had taken to tend to his condition as a diabetic. He reportedly always had his medications with him, and he kept them in a case.

After his death, one of the jailers said that during intake, the man’s blood sugar was tested. The blood sugar was so high, he should have been immediately admitted into a hospital, but he wasn’t. Four days later, he was transferred to a nearby hospital. Jail records showed that he was moved there because his blood sugar was four times higher than the normal range. Also, his body was ice cold to the touch. The man died four days later. Some of the jailers allegedly came to the consensus that the man might have survived if his needs had been tended to immediately instead of waiting for several days.

See Part 1 and Part 2 of this three-part series.

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–Guest Contributor