The Department of Justice is looking into the death of Larry Eugene Price, Jr, an Arkansas man who died of starvation after spending more than a year in jail pre-trial because he couldn’t afford his $1,000 bail, Newsweek reports.
When Price entered prison, he weighed 185 pounds; at the time of his death, according to a Jaunary lawsuit filed by his family, he weighed 90 pounds, and was suffering from a mental crisis and eating his own urine and feces.
