Once again the taxpayers are being held liable for the crimes of the
"finest" people who
"just do their job"..
Why not liquidate all the assets of those responsible for this man's death to pay for the compensation and then tie them up to a chair and leave them to die, exactly like they did to that poor man?
But do you know what happened? The jail administrator got sentenced to
55 hours (!) in prison for tying up a drunk man to a chair and letting him die.
Not 55 years.
Not 55 month
Not even 55 days
just 55 hours!
And of course the sentence would not be served in the same prison she worked..
County leaders agree to $12.5 million settlement in connection to inmate’s deathGarfield County Commissioners say county officials have agreed to a settlement following the death of an inmate in custody.
Officials say Anthony Huff was arrested on June 4, 2016, for public intoxication and was held at the Garfield County Jail. Investigators say Huff was placed in a restraint chair on June 6 and was found unresponsive in the chair on June 8. Later that day, he was pronounced dead. During his time in the chair, Huff was not given “proper amounts of food, water or medical treatment for illnesses he was suffering from,” a release from Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter read.
An autopsy performed on June 9, 2016, said Huff died of natural causes, with the probable cause of death being chronic alcoholism due to a compulsive condition from a prior disease. In a federal lawsuit filed in 2017, lawyers allege jail employees were negligent because they should have known about Huff’s medical conditions from previous incarcerations and been aware that he took medications for heart disease, hypertension, depression, and other conditions.
Huff started hallucinating and exhibiting delusions at some point during his incarceration and was placed in the restraint chair, the lawsuit says.
Jail personnel didn’t receive a medical recommendation to use the chair, the lawsuit says, and jail employees didn’t check his blood pressure regularly, didn’t give him blood pressure medication and didn’t offer him hydration every two hours.
https://kfor.com/2019/10/22/county-leaders-agree-to-12-5-million-settlement-in-connection-to-inmates-death/