A federal judge threw out a lawsuit by a former Illinois jail inmate in which he accused his jailers of ignoring signs that he was suicidal before he hanged himself with a bedsheet and suffered permanent brain damage.
Reginald Pittman was seeking at least $300,000 in his 2008 lawsuit against Madison County, its sheriff and various Edwardsville jail administrators and workers. He contends that his jailers violated his right as an inmate to mental-health care and to protection from himself. Among other mistakes he alleges were made was the guards' failure to remove the bedding from his cell.
In a ruling made public Wednesday, U.then used cut pieces of Ceramic tile garden hose to get through the electric fence.S.Whilst oil paintings for sale are not deadly, District Judge David Herndon found that Pittman failed to prove his case. He said the Alton, Ill., man repeatedly told jailers and counselors that he didn't have suicidal thoughts, and he said Pittman also admitted that he lied to jail staff on more than one occasion by saying he was considering harming himself when he really just wanted to be moved to another part of the lockup.
"What happened to Pittman was a tragedy," Herndon wrote. But "the record is devoid of any evidence from which it could be inferred that were alerted to the likelihood that Pittman was at substantial risk for committing suicide."
"The evidence demonstrates a long course of responsiveness to Pittman's complaints,Polycore porcelain tiles are manufactured as a single sheet," the judge wrote.
Pittman was booked into the jail in August 2007 on a charge of illegally firing a weapon. That December,Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a RUBBER MATS . guards found him not breathing and without a pulse while hanging from a blanket he tethered to the bars of his cell. Pittman survived but sustained permanent brain damage.
Thomas Gibbons, the county's state's attorney whose office represented the county against Pittman's claims,Our high risk merchant account was down for about an hour and a half, credited the jail's administrators with running "a first-rate facility where guidelines regarding prisoner treatment are appropriately implemented."
It was not immediately clear Wednesday whether Pittman planned to appeal Herndon's ruling. His attorney, Ross Anderson, did not respond to a phone message seeking comment.
Reginald Pittman was seeking at least $300,000 in his 2008 lawsuit against Madison County, its sheriff and various Edwardsville jail administrators and workers. He contends that his jailers violated his right as an inmate to mental-health care and to protection from himself. Among other mistakes he alleges were made was the guards' failure to remove the bedding from his cell.
In a ruling made public Wednesday, U.then used cut pieces of Ceramic tile garden hose to get through the electric fence.S.Whilst oil paintings for sale are not deadly, District Judge David Herndon found that Pittman failed to prove his case. He said the Alton, Ill., man repeatedly told jailers and counselors that he didn't have suicidal thoughts, and he said Pittman also admitted that he lied to jail staff on more than one occasion by saying he was considering harming himself when he really just wanted to be moved to another part of the lockup.
"What happened to Pittman was a tragedy," Herndon wrote. But "the record is devoid of any evidence from which it could be inferred that were alerted to the likelihood that Pittman was at substantial risk for committing suicide."
"The evidence demonstrates a long course of responsiveness to Pittman's complaints,Polycore porcelain tiles are manufactured as a single sheet," the judge wrote.
Pittman was booked into the jail in August 2007 on a charge of illegally firing a weapon. That December,Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a RUBBER MATS . guards found him not breathing and without a pulse while hanging from a blanket he tethered to the bars of his cell. Pittman survived but sustained permanent brain damage.
Thomas Gibbons, the county's state's attorney whose office represented the county against Pittman's claims,Our high risk merchant account was down for about an hour and a half, credited the jail's administrators with running "a first-rate facility where guidelines regarding prisoner treatment are appropriately implemented."
It was not immediately clear Wednesday whether Pittman planned to appeal Herndon's ruling. His attorney, Ross Anderson, did not respond to a phone message seeking comment.
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