AL - Alabama jail investigated after Anthony Mitchell, 33, dies of hypothermia while in custoday - 2/20/23

[Bishop Black]

An inmate froze to death while detained at an Alabama jail last month, family alleges in suit

The death of a man being held in an Alabama jail last month has sparked a state investigation as well as a lawsuit from the man’s family, claiming his body temperature was dangerously low after he received delayed medical attention and that he died of hypothermia.

The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency is investigating the death of 33-year-old Anthony Mitchell, who was transported from the Walker County Jail to a nearby hospital “for evaluation” and died on January 26, the agency said in a release. The investigation is at the request of the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, the agency said.

Mitchell’s family claims that a doctor saying Mitchell was hypothermic means he was likely “placed in a restraint chair in the jail kitchen’s walk-in freezer or similar frigid environment and left there for hours,” before his death, according to the lawsuit.

 

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Just another example

 

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An inmate froze to death while detained at an Alabama jail last month, family alleges in suit | CNN

The death of a man being held in an Alabama jail last month has sparked a state investigation as well as a lawsuit from the man's family, claiming his body temperature was dangerously low after he received delayed medical attention and that he died of hypothermia.

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An inmate froze to death while detained at an Alabama jail last month, family alleges in suit | CNN

The death of a man being held in an Alabama jail last month has sparked a state investigation as well as a lawsuit from the man's family, claiming his body temperature was dangerously low after he received delayed medical attention and that he died of hypothermia.

www.cnn.com

Good for her!