An inmate at an Alabama county jail died after being placed in a freezer by guards, according to a recent lawsuit.
The family of Anthony “Tony” Mitchell allege that over a dozen county jail guards abused Mitchell and placed him in a freezer as part of his torture. The lawsuit also claims the guards attempted to cover up the abuse.
“While Tony languished naked and dying of hypothermia in the early morning hours of Jan. 26 and his chances for survival trickled away, numerous corrections officers and medical staff wandered over to his open cell door to spectate and be entertained by his condition,” the lawsuit reads.
“It is clear that Tony’s death was wrongful, the result of horrific, malicious abuse and mountains of deliberate indifference,” the lawsuit states.
“This is the worst case of inmate abuse I have ever seen,” said the Mitchell family attorney Jon Goldfarb. “The evidence of abuse would have been buried with Tony Mitchell but for the bravery of a lone corrections officer who made videos of what really happened to Tony and shared one of them. And, they fired her for exposing the truth of this abuse.”
Source: Nypost.com
