Inmate died after losing 45 lbs. over 20 days of solitary confinement: lawsuit
Phyllis Loya, whose police officer son was murdered, joined 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the legislation and why it would be a 'travesty' if passed.after losing 45 lbs. in less than three weeks, his family's attorneys alleged in a new lawsuit.
He stayed in a bare room with no windows, a locked bathroom and florescent lights for the next three weeks, naked, where he allegedly"continued to suffer from active psychosis while receiving no medical or mental health treatment and virtually no human contact," according to the complaint. Joshua McLemore, 28, was immediately placed in solitary confinement after a June 20, 2021, incident at a hospital in which he pulled a nurse's hair while having an"acute psychotic episode," a federal complaint reads.
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