"The guards were not culpable because “none of them expressed any belief that a stomachache could result in her death,” Ms. Becker [the prosecuter] said in an interview.
Staff members receive no medical training that could have helped them assess Ms. Dockery’s condition. “I am pretty sure she is going through withdrawals,” Tiffany Faigh, the work-release coordinator, wrote in an email to seven other employees. “She claims she hasn’t ate since she has been here, which is probably why her stomach hurts.”"
That's the point -- no medical training to assess her condition -- but they assessed it anyway: "pretty sure" it's withdrawal; "probably' her stomach ache due to not eating. If you are not medically trained your duty is to call someone who is and if someone dies because you are practicing medical diagnosis without a license then you are guilty of criminally negligent homicide (involuntary manslaughter). The failure to prosecute is a political, not a legal, decision. It's not that they didn't listen, they didn't care.
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