The family of a man who took his own life in the Cuyahoga County Jail, after months of warnings from medical officials that new inmates were not getting proper medical screenings, will get a $2.1 million settlement.
Brenden Kiekisz, with his mother, Paula. Brenden Kiekisz is one of nine Cuyahoga County Jail inmates who died in county custody since from June 2018 through May 2019.CLEVELAND, Ohio —
The settlement must be approved by Cuyahoga County Council, which is set to vote on the settlement at Tuesday’s meeting. County spokeswoman Mary Louise Madigan and MetroHealth spokesman Mike Tobin declined to comment. The Kiekisz family attorney, Paul Cristallo, also declined comment. The criminal convictions included the former warden, Eric Ivey, and the former jail director, Ken Mills, whom a jury found guilty of negligently making decisions that made the jail unsafe by cutting basic costs for inmates while packing the facility through the county’s jail regionalization efforts.
Instead of giving inmates medical screenings during the booking process, Mills and Ivey decided to have corrections officers record inmates’ preliminary medical information and send them to see nurses on a different floor. Kiekisz told jail officers that he had recently tried to take his own life two days before his arrest, that he suffered from bipolar disorder and that he took medication. He never got a medical screening, but someone -- it’s still unclear who -- used a stamp to say Kiekisz got a medical screening.
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