Cobb Sheriff, Wellstar Sued Over Jailhouse Death of Mentally Ill Inmate
Reginald Wilson was known to be bipolar and schizophrenic but spent more than a week with no medication before he was found dead on the floor, the complaint said.
January 10, 2020 at 06:04 PM
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The sister of a mentally ill man who died of dehydration at the Cobb County Jail after not receiving his medication for more than a week has sued Sheriff Neil Warren and the jail's healthcare provider, Wellstar Health Systems.
Reginald Wilson died at the jail Dec. 29, 2018, from what the medical examiner deemed dehydration "while lying in a room covered in feces and urine," said the complaint his sister, Monica Peltier, filed in Cobb County Superior Court.
"This was just a horrible situation; this gentleman was held for more than a week before he died," said attorney W. Pitts Carr. "The jail psychiatrist ordered that he be given a couple of drugs, but they never saw that he took them—he got one pill the day before he died."
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