Autopsy finds 'severe neglect' to blame for man's death in bedbug-infested Georgia jail cell

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By KATE BRUMBACK today

ATLANTA (AP) — A man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in a Georgia jail’s psychiatric wing “died due to severe neglect,” according to an independent autopsy released Monday by lawyers for his family.

Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in September, three months after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Public outrage over his death spread last month after a lawyer for his family, Michael Harper, released photos of Thompson’s face and body covered in insects.

“Mr. Thompson was neglected to death,” says the autopsy report written by Dr. Roger A. Mitchell Jr., a former chief medical examiner in Washington, D.C., who is now a professor and chair of the pathology department at Howard University College of Medicine.

The independent autopsy report lists the cause of death as “Complications due to Severe Neglect,” with “Untreated Decompensated Schizophrenia” identified as a contributing cause.




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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Are they going to try to sweep it under the carpet by diffusing responsibility?

[moniss]

2. It won't be long until we hear

"nobody could have known" or something similar.

[Roy Rolling]

3. Brain Disease

Another human afflicted with a brain disease “treated” for a medical condition at a jail.

Fucking criminals themselves. Who polices the police?

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. they police themselves and discover they do nothing wrong.

[OhioTim]

6. Didn't Some State Just Vote

that you can't police the police anymore?

[infullview]

7. Better yet, ask yourself who defunded state run mental institutions that used to keep these people

from being neglected and living on the streets? I won't mention any names, but Ronald Reagan comes to mind. He's the gift that just keeps on giving. He did so much damage to society. He too wanted to roll back the working age to 13!!! Fucking republicans haven't changed at all. He also took away rules that kept the media from being just another ratings show.

[dembotoz]

8. bingo

[riversedge]

5. Geeze. I hope the ones responsible met Lady Justice!

[moonshinegnomie]

9. arrest those responsible for murder

upon conviction give them the death penalty.

that may be the only way to change things

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. Get rid of the for profit prisons

That are covers for legal slavery,and stop putting mentally ill,non violent people in jail.

This shit goes back to that fucking degenerate reagan. Fuck reagan forever and ever.