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October 30th, 2017 
Awake Goy 
The settlement was filed recently in U.S. District Court in Albany, where Cannon’s mother had filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Cannon’s infant daughter.
Cannon’s symptoms steadily worsened after employees of a medical company that had a contract with the county brushed off his severe neurological symptoms as heat exhaustion, instructing guards to give him water and let him rest.
Later that night, Cannon’s condition had deteriorated to the point where he lay nearly motionless on the floor of an infirmary cell with foam oozing from his mouth. A nurse patted his arm and wiped away the saliva, wrongly believing Cannon was recovering from a seizure even though he had no history of medical problems.
A nurse finally contacted a doctor for advice, and he instructed her to immediately call an ambulance. But it was too late: Cannon lingered for several days at Albany Medical Center Hospital before he was removed from life support.
Doctors determined Cannon had suffered a stroke — a loss of blood flow to his brain stem — that may have been caused by working out in the jail’s recreation area on the day he fell ill. Emergency surgery might have saved his life, but too many hours had passed after the injury.
The state’s investigation cited multiple missteps by nurses, including their repeated failure to acknowledge the severity of Cannon’s symptoms or consult a physician until it was too late.
“Mark Cannon had a progressively deteriorating neurological situation that was completely disregarded by nursing staff despite dramatic signs and symptoms of an active neurological emergency and Cannon’s repeated requests for medical care,” the investigative report states.
The sharp criticism of Correctional Medical Care, a Pennsylvania-based private company, came as the state was probing the company’s conduct related to multiple inmate deaths across the state.
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