Family says there should be more focus on mental health treatment inside jails.
A man who gouged his eyes out during a mental health crisis while incarcerated at the Boulder County Jail in Colorado has reached a $2.55 million settlement with the county. Inmate Ryan Partridge named then-Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle and 21 others — including administrators of the jail, deputies and sergeants of the jail, and other jail staff — in a federal civil rights lawsuit in 2017, claiming they should have known something like this would happen.
"This is a form of justice for me, but it's not justice in its essence," Partridge said from his Boulder home, where he lives with his parents. Partridge's days have changed significantly over the past seven years. He describes his days as more methodical and routine and says it takes more time to complete simple tasks, like making coffee. However, his mental health has improved."I've pretty much been asymptomatic recently, and I feel like I'm recovering," said Partridge.
"Some people probably view it as, that I did it to myself," said Ryan Partridge."We also were fighting uphill against qualified immunity for a lot of the people in our lawsuit," he said, explaining some of the challenges within their case."We take care of each other," she said."We're lucky to have Ryan here. There's lots of people, you know, who lose their loved one in this situation.
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