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Man with schizophrenia was left naked in jail cell for weeks before death, video shows

Joshua McLemore on his first day in Jackson county, Indiana jail where he was brought to solitary confinement and left naked.
Joshua McLemore on his first day in Jackson county, Indiana jail where he was brought to solitary confinement and left naked. Photograph: Courtesy of family of Joshua McLemore


New surveillance video from inside an Indiana jail shows how a 29-year-old man who died in the summer of 2021 from dehydration and malnutrition was left naked in solitary confinement for three weeks with no medical attention.

The footage was released on Wednesday by the family of Joshua McLemore as part of a federal civil rights lawsuit against Jackson county, Indiana. The suit accuses the local sheriff, jail commander and medical staff of causing McLemore’s death through deliberate indifference, neglect and unconstitutional jail conditions while he was in a state of psychosis.

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