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Civil Rights - Detainee Death - Deliberate Indifference - Hospital Transport (access required)

By Deborah Elkins
Published: November 17, 2008

The estate of a detainee who died in custody, and who had a psychiatric history and was arrested for stabbing his girlfriend, and who during his three days of detention prior to his death, was agitated and combative toward correctional personnel, refused to wear clothes and kept throwing urine and feces outside his cell and ...
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