HOUSTON A nurse working at a healthcare facility in Harris County who was attacked and beaten by a patient is claiming his former employer failed to protect its workers.
Murrey Burnside filed a complaint April 19 in Harris County District Court against Res-Care Inc., doing business as BrightSpring Health Services, BrightSpring Health Services and John Doe alleging negligence.
Burnside alleges in his complaint that while working as a nurse for Res-Care and BrightSpring Health in Harris County on April 4, 2019, he was violently attacked and beaten by a patient being transported within the facility. He claims that as a result of the attack, he suffered severe physical and emotional injuries including physical impairment and disfigurement as well as loss of earnings.
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ICE prisoners on hunger strikes
Dozens of immigrants held in detention at both the Essex and Hudson county jails began a hunger strike on Monday Dectember 28, in an attempt to gain their freedom.
The action coincides with a spike in Covid-19 cases at both facilities creating fear, a sense of urgency and exacerbating the already harsh conditions for those inside jails and ICE facilities.
“I had never experienced the suffering, the pain, the agony that is to be locked up there, all the humiliations, all the torture that one goes through in that place. It’s unbelievable, it’s awful,” said one hunger striker, whose anonymity is being protected because he is in ICE detention at the Essex County Jail.