Jail Let Mentally Disabled Human Starve To Death, Lawsuit Tells
( CNN) Arrested for stealing $5.05 of sweets and soda, a 24 -year-old who doctors repeatedly diagnosed as psychotic and delusional was left to essentially starve to death over four months in a squalid Virginia jail cell, Jamycheal Mitchell’s aunt alleged in a federal lawsuit.
By the time Mitchell died in August — officially, of a heart condition “accompanying wasting disorder of unknown etiology” — jail staff is reportedly denied him many meals, cut off the water to his cell and left him naked with no bedclothe or shoes as he smeared feces on the window of his urine-covered cell, the lawsuit countries, citing numerous inmates who served period with Mitchell.
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Jail Let Mentally Disabled Human Starve To Death, Lawsuit Tells
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Jail Let Mentally Disabled Human Starve To Death, Lawsuit Tells
Jail Let Mentally Disabled Human Starve To Death, Lawsuit Tells
Jail Let Mentally Disabled Human Starve To Death, Lawsuit Tells