Monday, January 16, 2023

Larry Price died of starvation over year in Ark. jail, lawsuit claims - The Washington Post

To Price's family, his death is especially painful because of how easily it could have been avoided — starting with the decision to put a man with schizophrenia into a system that was never designed to treat him and then holding him without trial for a year over the $100 bail he couldn't afford. The pain is compounded, they say, by details like the dozens of prison logs that suggest either no one was watching or no one cared as he wasted away, the logs that continued to list him as "OK" — even after he had died...


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