mother brings suit against alabama jail after son died of hypothermia

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Mitchell's mother, Maragret Mitchell, brought the lawsuit against Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith, 10 corrections officers, two nurses and one investigator.

Walker County Jail officials allegedly placed Anthony "Tony" Mitchell, 33, "in a restraint chair in the jail kitchen's walk-in freezer or similar frigid enforcement and left [him] there for hours," possibly "as punishment for deputies who had ‘had a time with Tony,’" according to the complaint.

"While Tony languished naked and dying of hypothermia in the early morning hours of January 26 and his chances for survival trickled away, numerous corrections officers and medical staff wandered over to his open cell door to spectate and be entertained by his condition," the complaint states.

The complaint also mentions a corrections officer who displayed "heroism" when she "dared to preserve security camera footage on her phone and get the recordings to the [Mitchell] Estate."

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to compound things, they didn't call for an ambulance when his temperature had dropped as far as just 72 degrees but stuffed him in a sheriff's vehicle to take him to hospital.

when jails like this are so compromised, the gov't should have the power to take them under federal power (if they're privately run). to be honest, i don't believe any jails should be privately run but, hey, this is America.