3 jailers charged in dehydration death
MILWAUKEE — Three Milwaukee County jail employees were charged Monday in connection with the dehydration death of a mentally ill inmate who endured a week without water, prosecutors said Monday.
The charges announced by the Milwaukee district attorney’s office came almost a year after jurors presented with evidence by prosecutors in an inquest recommended that jail employees should be liable. An investigation revealed that water was shut off to the cell of Terrill Thomas, 38, as punishment after he flooded it in April 2016.
Supervisor Kashka Meadors and jail deputy James Lee Ramsey-Guy are charged with neglect of a resident of a penal facility, a felony that punishable by 3 years in prison. Prosecutors say that Meadors ordered Ramsey-Guy to shut off the water.
Jail Cmdr. Nancy Lee Evans is charged with felony misconduct and misdemeanor obstructing an office. Prosecutors say that she failed to preserve surveillance video showing the water turned off, and that she lied to police about what the footage showed. If convicted of both charges, Evans could face more than four years in prison.
Thomas’ family has said he was having a mental breakdown when police arrested him on April 14, 2016, for shooting a man in front of his parents’ house and later firing a gun inside a casino. Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
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