Portsmouth Jail, No Bail Wrote:
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> Need answers Wrote:
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> > Question: If he was so loved by his sister and
> > family, why did they leave him in the jail when
> > they knew he needed to be hospitalized. They
> > didn't go see him in 4 months? I can't imagine
> the
> > bail on a $5 shoplifting charge would be more
> than
> > maybe $250.
> >
> From
>
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/28/jam
> ycheal-mitchell-virginia-jail-found-dead e>The aunt said relatives had not been able to
> visit Mitchell because he had not given jail
> officials their names as approved
> visitors.As far as bail goes, the
> judge didn't set bail, and instead ordered
> Mitchell to be transferred to Eastern State
> Hospital in Williamsburg.
>
> Since the mental health system for poor people is
> completely overwhelmed, no bed for Williams ever
> became available. He stopped taking his meds, he
> stopped eating, and since he didn't tell anyone he
> was on a hunger strike and wasn't a behavioral
> problem, the guards didn't notice that he was
> starving to death.
>
> The family (or more likely, Mark Krudys, the
> family's lawyer) then shopped the story around,
> likely to drum up public sympathy for whatever
> wrongful death lawsuit they will shortly be
> filing.
If the cause of death was starvation and they provided him food and he just wouldn't eat.........Get the fuck out of my courtroom you slime ball bottom feeding lawyer!!!!!!