The family of an African-American man who starved to death in an Arkansas jail because he was unable to pay his $100 bail sued Sebastian County, which runs the detention center where the man died.
The family of 50-year-old Larry Eugene Price filed a wrongful-death lawsuit after he lost over 100 pounds and died while detained at Sebastian County Detention Center.
FORT SMITH The family of a man who died at the Sebastian County jail in 2021 from acute dehydration and malnutrition filed a civil rights lawsuit claiming it was the result of both "deliberate indifference and neglect" and systemic deficiencies at the facility.
FORT SMITH The family of a man who died at the Sebastian County jail in 2021 from acute dehydration and malnutrition launched a civil rights lawsuit claiming it was the result of both "deliberate indifference and neglect" and systemic deficiencies at the facility.