May 25, 2008
Indiana: Dead inmate’s family sues sheriff and jail
A Marion County Jail II inmate was denied blood-pressure medication before he collapsed and later died of hypertension, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in Marion Superior Court.
The lawsuit was filed by attorneys who have filed other complaints challenging medical care at the privately run jail. It says the jail's medical staff failed to give Brian Keith Allen, 33, regular doses of his medication, despite at least one high blood pressure reading.
He collapsed Nov. 25, 2006, and died five days later in a hospital. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of his estate and his mother, Ella Mae Allen, names Corrections Corporation of America, two medical staff members and Sheriff Frank Anderson…
LINK - IndyStar.com
