MCDOUGAL HAD REFUSED TO GIVE SAMPLE

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For six hours the day before he died, James McDougal told
his jailers he was unable to provide urine for a drug test, the U.S. Bureau
of Prisons said Wednesday.

Prison system spokesman Todd Craig said that under federal prison policy, an
inmate is presumed to be refusing to participate in a drug test if he fails
over a two-hour period to provide urine. In McDougal's case, ``staff worked
with him for about six hours to afford him every opportunity to comply with
the request, but he said he was unable to do so,'' said Craig.

Craig had said Monday night that McDougal ``refused to provide a urine
sample.''

McDougal, who was serving his term at the Fort Worth, Texas, medical
facility, complained last November that he had been unable to provide urine
for a drug test because of all the medication he was taking for a variety of
ailments. His complaint was found not to be justified during an
administrative review and he was given seven days in solitary confinement.

After failing to give a sample for a random drug test Saturday night,
McDougal was removed from the general inmate population and placed in
solitary confinement, with guards making rounds of cells to check on inmates
every 30 minutes.

While in solitary, McDougal stood up for an inmate count at 10:30 a.m. CST
Sunday, but he was found stricken 25 minutes later. He died of an apparent
heart attack.