Heart failure: Medical runaround keeps man locked in state prison two years after being paroled
Not only was John Teixeria granted a rare “medical parole” in January 2020 but he’s also received standard parole every six months since then. But state prison officials say they have no place to send him in his condition.
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When John Teixeria was moved to a nursing home in Queens Village after three decades in prison, he thought his time behind bars was finally at an end.
“When I first crossed the Throgs Neck Bridge, I said, ‘It’s over,’” Teixeria recalled of the trip in June 2021 during an interview via his legal team earlier this month back at Fishkill Correctional Facility. “We pulled up, went inside, they introduced themselves to me.”
Within minutes, a nurse at the Windsor Park Rehab and Nursing Center in Queens indicated there was a problem.