Epileptic man with numerous pre-existing conditions including diabetes, hypertension, and alcoholism, was denied seizure medication for 20 days in jail by jail’s private, for-profit medical company; man sustained multiple seizures including one for 7.5 hours; Plaintiff survived, with permanent brain damage.
Death in jail of 50-year-old, unemployed, alcoholic man, survived by four adult children. Non-economic damages only. Defendant Corizon Health, Inc., was deliberately indifferent to inmate’s medical needs by failing to place him on alcohol detox protocols and allowing him to go into severe alcohol withdrawal; then when inmate was hallucinating with Delirium Tremens, 10 deputies beat and Tased him to death.
Jail death of 58 y.o. chronic alcoholic man, deprived of proper alcohol detoxification and confined in a restraint chair for 55 hours.