Family Says Atlanta Inmate Was ‘Eaten Alive’ By Bed Bugs: Lawsuit

According to a Georgia family, their loved one was” eaten dead” by bed bugs and other bugs and passed away in an Atlanta prison last year.

Lashawn Thompson, 35, was detained on June 12th, 2022, on suspicion of a criminal battery charge, according to CBS News. Due to his mental health issues, he was taken to Fulton County Jail and admitted to the medical aircraft.

Thompson” was found dead in a filthy jail cell after being eaten alive by insects and bed bugs ,” according to family attorney Michael Harper, who posted the statement on Facebook three months later( WARNING: disturbing images ).

Harper also included pictures of the body the community claims Thompson was kept in, as well as images of Thompson’s’s appearance covered in bugs and bites. The life is asking for a judicial investigation into the death of Thompson.

According to Harper’s’s Facebook post, jail records indicate that health professionals and prison administrators” noticed that Mr. Thompson was deteriorating but did nothing to procure help to him or make him.”

Harper continued,” They absolutely watched his health deteriorate until he passed away.” One of the detention officers reportedly” freaked out” when his body was discovered, so she declined to perform CPR.

According to USA Today, first responders made an unsuccessful attempt to save Thompson’s’s career.

Thompson’s’s body, according to Harper, was” never fit for a sick animal.”

He wasn’t deserving of this. Harper continued,” Someone has to be held responsible for his loss.

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This is not the first day Fulton County Jail has been charged with mistreating residents, according to CBS. Patrick Labat, the sheriff of Fulton County, expressed his personal worries about the prison’s’s overcrowding and lack of funding last year.

At the time, Labat remarked,” You have 3,500 + points of data that show the dangers of where we are and the crisis we’re’re in.”

After 1, 400 prisoners were added in the previous two decades, Labat explained that there were now 3, 600 residents at the prison. There weren’t enough rooms, he continued, so 428 prisoners were dozing off on the ground. The situation was referred to as a” humanitarian issue” by community inspector Bob Ellis.

During a conference with the Fulton County Commission, Labat made his comments. The committee renewed a$ 27 million contract for the jail’s’s inmates’ physical and mental health products after he finished speaking. According to CBS, Labat also asked for an additional$ 6 million to address other issues like time and employee retention.