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ATWATER, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) -- Questions proceed astatine the United States Penitentiary successful Atwater pursuing the decease of a idiosyncratic astatine the penitentiary.
Thursday, a closed memorial work was held to grant Marc Fischer, who mislaid his beingness connected August 9 aft vulnerability to message laced with what authorities accidental were illicit substances including fentanyl.
"We person to acceptable a precedence here. We person to beryllium a point. This is not okay. This is thing our unit are exposed to continually," said Brandy Moore-White, the nationalist president of the Council of Prison Locals 33. "This shouldn't person happened this could person been prevented," she said.
Moore-White said she is much than frustrated aft the 23-year Federal Bureau of Prisons idiosyncratic mislaid his life.
The national ailment says the message helium encountered, was 'soaked' with substances which tested 'preliminarily positive' for not conscionable fentanyl but besides amphetamines, synthetic cannabinoids, and different substances.
Moore-White says she's seen instances akin to this nationwide, conscionable possibly not to this tragic extent.
Fischer's authoritative origin of decease is inactive pending toxicology results, but the national idiosyncratic national is present pushing for fentanyl-resistant gloves and Narcan connected each employee.
"You can't enactment a outgo connected a life," said Moore-White. Marc Fischer was conscionable 54-years-old.
According to Moore-White and a GoFundMe by Fischer's family, the man was a US Coast Guard veteran, a devoted hubby and father, and a idiosyncratic defined by selflessness and integrity.
"I perceive that helium was a phenomenal man, a stand-up employee," said Moore-White. "A begetter with 2 beauteous children. I can't ideate what the family's going done close now."
Federal authorities person announced the arrests of 3 radical pursuing his death.
USP Atwater captive 35-year-old Jamar Jones, 37-year-old Jermen Rudd III of Missouri, and 35-year-old Stephanie Ferreira of Indiana person each been charged aft authorities accidental the trio conspired to get illicit drugs into the national situation for Jamar Jones to sell.
They accidental Fischer opened the laced missive sent by Jermen Rudd meant for the captive Jones.
If recovered guilty, each of them faces decades successful situation and hundreds of thousands of dollars successful fines.
If you privation to assistance Fischer's household during this unimaginable time, their GoFundMe nexus tin beryllium recovered here.
