RE: Fucking Cops: Volume II
September 26, 2015 at 12:48 am
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2015 at 12:50 am by TheRocketSurgeon.)
(September 25, 2015 at 7:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fami...10edfa778b
Quote:Man Jailed For Unpaid Traffic Ticket Suffers 'Excruciating' Death In Cell: Lawsuit
Quote:The suit claims deputies looked on via a 24-hour camera mounted in Stojcevski's cell as he withered away for 17 days, having been denied the medications he'd been prescribed (and was taking prior to his incarceration) to manage his drug withdrawal.
It's actually fairly common for them to deny medications to people coming into jails. One of my best (financially) suits was against Iron County, Missouri, for causing an inmate to have a heart attack by denying him his heart meds which were in his pocket when he was arrested, for well over a month, while he pleaded with them about it. They did the same thing, placing him in a suicide cell "for his protection" (*cough* bullshit *cough*), naked and freezing, and on camera, which is humiliating. He survived his heart attack, but had to have open heart surgery for it, and they sent him a bill for the surgery and hospital stay, and even for the guards who were detailed to watch him while at the hospital. After making it past the initial stages of the lawsuit, designed to defeat inmate suits by making the legal standards to qualify for a claim for the exact same damages much higher than they are for an equivalent suit by a non-prisoner (it's called the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996, or PLRA, if you want to look it up), he was offered a large cash settlement to drop the suit and sign a nondisclosure agreement. You may sneer at him for taking it and "letting them off the hook", but without outside legal help, which is unavailable to prisoners because of other provisions of the PLRA which make caps so low on inmate suits that real lawyers won't take the cases unless they have $10K-$20K cash up front, it's very difficult to win, no matter how righteous their case, and even if you win, which may literally take a decade or more, a second suit is often required to get them to actually pay you.
A settlement is a Big Win, and gets immediate payment most of the time, which for a poverty-stricken inmate is enough to usually cause them to "break" and let the county/cops off the hook.
I also, of course, reference you back to how I was also hospitalized for want of the medications they failed to give me, and was told I almost went into a coma by the ER docs.
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