EDITORIAL: 'Without detailed, conscientious, timely reviews of jail deaths, Cuyahoga County leaves itself vulnerable to more inmate deaths, more lawsuits, more expensive payouts.'
highlighted -- among many other problems at the jail -- the failure to produce written reports after each jail death to identify mistakes made and highlight policies and practices that could keep such mistakes from being repeated.
About a year ago, Ferrise asked to see recent jail-death reports -- including for three inmate deaths in 2020. The reports were not provided. Late last month, after another inmate died, he again asked for the reports -- three for 2020, two for 2021 and the one for Jan. 15, 2022, and was told there were no reports to give him., but they cannot in fairness be called thorough administrative reviews. None of the incident summaries is longer than six sentences.
Gibson’s corrective action recommendation is one sentence long: “Re-enforcement of Correction Officer training related to warning signs, environmental awareness, responding to critical events, etc.” The whole purpose of producing written administrative reviews after jail deaths is to analyze what went wrong so it can be fixed. This failed to do that.
In a similar vein, the August 2020 overdose death of Lea Daye, a transgender woman in the process of transitioning -- whose cellmate, a man, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly providing the drugs she overdosed on -- also gets short shrift in Gibson’s administrative review. Of the two 2021 deaths, only one received administrative review: Gibson found that the death of Michael Brewer, a murder suspect who died of terminal cancer while in hospice care last May, required no corrective actions. The other 2021 death -- of 67-year-old inmate Samuel Foster from COVID-19 last December -- is still being investigated by the county sheriff, she wrote.
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