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The family of a mentally ill man found dead inside an Arkansas jail wants its staff to be held accountable. In a federal lawsuit filed on Jan. 13, the
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.
It was a failure of the system because he shouldn't have even been there.
The lawsuit against Sebastian County accuses the jail and its medical provider of neglecting Price as he ate and drank less over the course of a year and his weight dropped from 185 pounds to 90 pounds.