Lawsuit: Arkansas man died after jail denied medical help
Source: Associated Press
Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press
Updated 5:56 pm, Friday, May 26, 2017
HOUSTON (AP) — The family of an Arkansas man has filed a federal lawsuit in Texas accusing a for-profit jail and at least 12 guards and nurses of denying him adequate medical care as his health worsened and leaving him to die in his cell.
Videos that are part of the lawsuit show 35-year-old Michael Sabbie having difficulty standing and breathing after an altercation with guards hours before his death in July 2015 at the jail, which sits on the border of Texas and Arkansas in Texarkana, Texas. In the videos, Sabbie can be heard saying at least 19 times that he can't breathe.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Texarkana, Texas, alleges the jail, the Bi-State Justice Center, and its employees deprived Sabbie of his medications, denied him adequate medical care, ignored his serious medical needs and forced him "to endure extreme and needless pain and suffering ... causing his death."
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It's the second wrongful death lawsuit filed in the last eight months against the jail and its staff for allegedly not providing adequate medical care. The family of 20-year-old Morgan Angerbauer, who was diabetic, alleges in its lawsuit that a nurse failed to test her blood sugar and then gave Angerbauer the wrong medical treatment. Angerbauer died on July 1 of diabetic ketoacidosis, which occurs when there isn't enough insulin in the body. The nurse has been charged with misdemeanor negligent homicide. LaSalle has denied any wrongdoing in that case.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Lawsuit-alleges-jail-denied-medical-help-for-11176700.php
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