It’s so much worse than the headline makes it sound. Some excerpts:
Food had been left for Monk and none had been touched, prompting one jail employee to allegedly say to another on Nov. 12: “But there’s one thing you should know. He hasn’t been eating for a day and a half.”
When a jail employee told a deputy on Nov. 13 that Monk was soiled and didn’t appear to be moving, the jailer allegedly said: “I know he’s just peeing on himself. Come on, you know how it is. There are people just s----ing themselves.”
When Monk appeared to be in exactly the same position again Nov. 14, a jail employee told a deputy that he had “been like that for two days or so,” but the law enforcement agent didn’t act
He was declared dead on November 15th. He probably died 3 or 4 days before the jail staff actually bothered to investigate, despite being alerted multiple times that something was wrong.
It’s so much worse than the headline makes it sound. Some excerpts:
He was declared dead on November 15th. He probably died 3 or 4 days before the jail staff actually bothered to investigate, despite being alerted multiple times that something was wrong.