One detainee in 2022, who told guards that he was suicidal, was cleared after a medical check to return to his cell without any suicide-watch protocol. He was found dead about an hour later.
LEXINGTON After roughly 9 hours of deliberation, jurors concluded only one of three defendants were negligent of the medical needs of an inmate who committed suicide at the Boyd County Jail in 2021.
The estate of a 38-year-old Clearfield man who was found unresponsive in his cell at the State Correctional Institution Smithfield, Huntingdon County, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit ...