A Washington Post investigation concluded that the system was "a hidden world of flawed medical judgments, faulty administrative practices, neglectful guards, ill-trained technicians, sloppy record-keeping, lost medical files and dangerous staff shortages".
In person, Eggleston looks older than his 65 years, and though his reputation as a gentrified hellraiser precedes him, he comes across initially as diffident and guarded, ill-at ease in the company of strangers, still more so with strangers who want to question him about his work.
Inside, the driver of the Jeep was under armed police guard, critically ill with 90% burns.
The Guard was ill trained and ill led, mainly working-class young men resentful of the seemingly privileged students.
The doctor switched from performing a biopsy to brain surgery, catching other staff members off guard and ill prepared.
The doctor switched from performing a biopsy, which was not proving effective, to brain surgery, catching other staff members off guard and ill prepared.
AARP's campaign, which includes lobbying Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and state legislatures, and talk of running its own cellphone service, has caught the cellphone industry off guard and ill tempered.
It was the largest attack by Chechnya's separatist rebels outside Chechnya since 1999, and it appeared to catch police and security officers in the region off guard and ill prepared.
In 1988, united by a nerdish devotion to Ralph Lauren and an implicit understanding that department-store security guards were ill-equipped to deal with packs of forty or fifty kids at once, they christened themselves the Lo Lifes.
Jamie Fellner, a senior adviser at Human Rights Watch and the report's author, said the study was the first to take a comprehensive look at use of force by guards against mentally ill prisoners, to try to understand the dynamics behind the violence.
