Castro's lawyer brushed off the suggestion of autoerotic asphyxiation and said the prison bears responsibility for his death.
Although there has been some general improvement in prison healthcare since responsibility was transferred to the NHS in 2006, older prisoners can still face difficulties continuing their medication when imprisoned and routinely fail to receive preventative and screening services.
MOSCOW — A human rights panel that advises President Dmitri A. Medvedev published a damning report on the case of Sergei L. Magnitsky on Wednesday, arguing that highly placed investigators and prison officials share responsibility for his death in state custody.
Days later, a top prison official acknowledged responsibility in testimony to a Kremlin advisory council, saying, "There were clear violations on our side" and "We are not trying to diminish our guilt in this case; it obviously exists".
This means prison governors taking responsibility for the totality of what goes on in their prisons: being passionate not just about drug treatment, but about all prison activities, and ensuring staff and specialists work together and not simply within the confines of central contracts.
When her brother was arrested and sent to prison, Rose assumed responsibility for providing for the family and increased her own involvement in crime.
But Cecena's attorney, Tracy Lum, argues her client has been rehabilitated during nearly 37 years in prison, has taken responsibility for the crime and that keeping him behind bars "is cruel and unusual".
In Abu Ghraib, however, unit members were assigned as prison guards, with responsibilities that included the so-called Tier 1 cellblock of the prison.
He did not say how long the Red Cross would feed the prisoners but added that once the situation had stabilized, he would seek to make the prison authorities take over responsibility for the prisoners again.
Both candidates said they would focus on public safety, looking for ways to manage jail overcrowding and the implementation of state prison realignment, which shifted responsibility for many prisoners from state prisons to county jails.
Improvements made since the NHS assumed responsibility for prison healthcare are acknowledged.
