Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]

Optimus Prime said
New surveillance video from inside an Indiana jail shows how a 29-year-old man who died in the summer of 2021 from dehydration and malnutrition was left naked in solitary confinement for three weeks with no medical attention.

The footage was released on Wednesday by the family of Joshua McLemore as part of a federal civil rights lawsuit against Jackson county, Indiana. The suit accuses the local sheriff, jail commander and medical staff of causing McLemore’s death through deliberate indifference, neglect and unconstitutional jail conditions while he was in a state of psychosis.

Disturbing videos, some of which were reviewed by the Guardian, show McLemore as he was left in a small, windowless cell for 20 days straight in Jackson county jail in July and August of 2021. The cell had no bed or bathroom and had fluorescent lights on at all hours.

In the footage, McLemore, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, appears detached from reality, speaking gibberish, rolling in filth and his own waste and becoming clearly emaciated. He received daily meals through a small slot in his jail door, but appears to have rarely eaten them. He had extended human interactions on only four occasions – when guards used intense force and restraint devices to drag him out to clean the cell or give him a shower.

McLemore ultimately lost 45lbs during his stay, but never saw a doctor or mental health professional, the suit says…….

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-joshua-mclemore-video?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The family of a man who died after starving in an Indiana jail while being held in solitary confinement for three weeks has secured a $7.25m settlement, thought to be the state’s largest ever in connection with the death of an incarcerated person.

Joshua McLemore’s estate reached the settlement with the government of the county where the jail is. Wrongful death lawsuits against the jail’s physician and its medical services provider, Advanced Correctional Healthcare Inc, are still pending.

McLemore – who had a history of schizophrenia and substance abuse – died in 2021 at the jail in Jackson county, Indiana. His estate filed a lawsuit in April 2023, alleging that the lockup’s staff failed to provide proper care and violated his civil rights by failing to monitor his condition.

The lawsuit detailed how McLemore had refused to eat while in the jail. He was locked, naked, in a small, windowless cell for 20 days after his arrest on 20 July 2021.

Video surveillance from the jail showed McLemore incoherently talking and screaming in his cell – and by early August, he was too weak to lift his own body.

“By the time staff finally sent Josh to the hospital, his condition was so dire that the local hospital did not have the clinical resources to treat him and he had to be airlifted to a larger hospital in Cincinnati, where he died two days later,” court records state.

McLemore died of multiple organ failure on 10 August 2021 after losing nearly 45lb while in solitary confinement.……

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