A man found dead in a US jail covered in lice and faeces was malnourished, dehydrated and hadn’t been given his schizophrenia drugs for a month, says a report. – EPA pic, May 23, 2023.
A MAN found dead in an Atlanta jail covered in lice and faeces was malnourished, dehydrated and hadn’t been given his schizophrenia medicine for a month, a private coroner reported yesterday. While the official Fulton County, Georgia coroner ruled last September that the cause of death of 35-year-old Lashawn Thompson was “undetermined,” Roger Mitchell, a medical examiner hired by Thompson’s family, said he was “neglected to death” and called it “homicide.”
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