Twelve hours before 42-year-old Ryan Everson died inside a cell at the Clay County Jail, he promised his brother Noel Everson over the phone that he would travel from Missouri to attend his wedding this summer. Ryan, who was in prison for missing $600 in back-paid child support and was experiencing seizures from opiate withdrawal, told his brother he wanted to move to Hawaii and turn his life around.
“The last conversation we had, he told me, ‘Dude, will you make sure to keep money on my books? Will you make sure to keep phone time on?’” Noel tells The Independent. “I was like, ‘Absolutely, you’ll have phone time. I’m not going to spoil you, but I’ll get you what you need.’”
