A man with schizophrenia died after weeks of being malnourished in solitary confinement, lawsuit says.
The estate of 29-year-old Joshua McLemore is suing Jackson County, Indiana, and multiple other parties including the area's sheriff, jail commander and medical staff, alleging that McLemore died in custody from the results of dehydration and malnutrition after spending 20 days in solitary confinement in Jackson County Jail.
The lawsuit alleged that"multiple failures" Jackson County Jail employees and"systemic deficiencies" within the facility led to McLemore's death. According to the lawsuit, McLemore was arrested for pulling a nurse's hair while receiving care for a mental health crisis at the Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, Indiana. He was brought directly from the hospital to the jail.
According to the lawsuit, McLemore was under"medical observation," but observation logs were only maintained for the first week of his time in the jail and regular observations were either not documented or not performed. A record of McLemore's food and fluid intake was maintained for only one day, the lawsuit said.
"Relatively little of the food Josh received made it into his mouth," the lawsuit said."Instead, it ended up littering the floor of his cell along with urine, feces, and scraps of paper and Styrofoam he tore from the food containers."
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