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FAMILY: JAIL NEGLECTED TO TREAT EPILEPSY

MAN DIED IN CUSTODY, HAD SUFFERED SEIZURE WHILE STRAPPED TO CHAIR

By TOYA GRAHAM
(Rock Hill) Herald
Jun. 18, 2007

A York County Detention Center inmate died last year after being strapped to a chair for more than an hour while suffering an epileptic seizure, according to a lawsuit filed by the man's family.

The suit says a detention center nurse checked on Jeffrey William Waddell several times during the seizure but provided no medical care. A videotape shows Waddell's head moving forcefully to the left and right, and guards at one point wiped foam from his mouth.

Interim York County Coroner Sabrina Gast said Waddell, 36, died from the epileptic seizure.

"They watched and videotaped while he died, and they didn't do anything," said Waddell's mother, Jeanne Waddell of Rock Hill.

"This should not have to happen to anyone," she said. "You should not have to die strapped to a chair while having a seizure."

The suit names York County, the York Detention Center and Sheriff Bruce Bryant, who oversees the detention center as part of his office.

Bryant and Ralph Misle, chief of the detention center, referred comments to Kristie Jordan, staff attorney for the Sheriff's Office, who declined to comment.

Jeanne Waddell said her son had suffered from seizures since his preteen years. He suffered his last seizure May 10, 2006, while in custody at the detention center. Jeffrey Waddell was in custody after being charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature on Feb. 5, 2006. He was accused of hitting a man in the head with a wine bottle, according to an arrest warrant and report from the Rock Hill Police Department.

While at the detention center, he let officials know of his seizures in several inmate request forms.

On the day of his death, Waddell was "combative towards transport staff and resisted them physically," an officer noted in a report. He was restrained by eight officers and placed in a restraint chair, according to a statement from a detention center official. A short time later, Waddell suffered the seizure.

DREW PLANTEN

Posted on Wed, Jan. 04, 2006
Associated Press

MAN WHO KILLED SELF AT NC PRISON WAS NO LONGER ON SUICIDE WATCH

RALEIGH, N.C. - A man charged with murder who killed himself at Central Prison had been removed from suicide watch because medical authorities thought he was no longer a risk to himself, a prison spokesman said.

Mental health workers and a prison psychiatrist gave the go-ahead Oct. 30 to remove Drew Planten from suicide watch, prison spokesman Keith Acree said Tuesday. But Planten's mother said Tuesday that her son seemed despondent when she visited him Dec. 9.

"He just seemed very depressed," Sarah Chandler, Planten's mother and a Michigan attorney, said in a telephone interview. "He was saying stuff like he didn't care about himself anymore."

Planten used the hem of a sheet, half an inch wide, to hang himself in his cell Monday, defense attorney Kirk Osborn said. When Planten's body was discovered, a plastic bag was over his head, Osborn said. He did not leave a note.

A guard found his body about 2 p.m. Monday, prison officials said.

Planten was charged in October with the murder of Stephanie Bennett, 23. Investigators found her body May 21, 2002, in her Raleigh apartment.

Police arrested Planten, a fertilizer technician with the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, on Oct. 19 after his DNA matched semen found at the crime scene.

At a news conference Tuesday, police said they found several of > Bennett's personal items - including bank statements and college loan information - in Planten's apartment. They said they also found the handgun that was used to fatally shoot Rebecca Huismann of Lansing, Mich., close to where Planten once lived.

Chandler said that after she visited her son in early December, she mentioned to Osborn that she thought Planten should be on medication. But neither she nor Osborn shared that with prison officials, they said.

Acree wouldn't say whether Planten was taking medication.

HUGH LOCKLEAR, JR.
YOLANDA PATTERSON
SHANE HUFF
CALVIN BERNARD EDGE
CAROL HENDERSON

Posted on Thu, Aug. 23, 2007
AMY RAINEY
The Charlotte Observer

LAWSUIT FILED IN JAIL DEATH

Claim: Gaston inmate with epilepsy didn't receive his medication

Prison Health Services, Gaston County and Sheriff Alan Cloninger are being sued in the 2004 death of a jail inmate who suffered a seizure in his cell.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Prison Health Services, a company contracted by the jail, failed to provide Hugh Locklear, Jr., 21, his epileptic-seizure medication and didn't monitor his condition.

The suit, which seeks in excess of $75,000, alleges that the defendants violated Locklear's civil rights by showing a "deliberate indifference" to his "serious medical needs." It was filed in U.S. District Court by Pamela Dunbar. The suit does not specify her relationship to Locklear.

Cloninger and the county's attorney could not be reached Wednesday. Citing patient confidentiality, Prison Health Services would not comment, spokeswoman Susan Morgenstern said.

On Aug. 28, 2004, Locklear collapsed in his cell, police said, and was pronounced dead at Gaston Memorial Hospital.

His father, Hugh Locklear, 41, was also an inmate at the time. He has said his son never got epilepsy medication at the jail despite repeated requests.

Locklear, Jr. had been taking phenytoin and carbamazepine for seizures, but refused to take the medications after he was arrested in June 2004, according to an N.C. State Bureau of Investigation report.

In recent years, several inmates have died at the Gaston and Mecklenburg jails, both served by Prison Health.

Locklear's death came eight days after a 28-year-old woman collapsed in a holding cell at the Gaston County Jail while waiting to be charged. Yolanda Patterson later died. An autopsy said the cause of death was a cocaine overdose.

In May, a 39-year-old Gaston County inmate, Shane Huff, died of natural causes from a blood infection, an autopsy said.

Calvin Bernard Edge, 29, died of a seizure disorder at the Mecklenburg jail in December.

Carol Henderson, 51, died in May 2006 in a medical unit at the Mecklenburg jail after nearly a month in custody awaiting trial on a misdemeanor. An autopsy show she died from sepsis, an overreaction to infection.

Researcher Sara Klemmer contributed.

ALLISON JEANNE CARPENTER

Posted on Tue, Jul. 17, 2007
MELISSA MANWARE

FOUL PLAY NOT SUSPECTED

Inmate dies at Mecklenburg jail

Woman brought in Sunday night, found dead Monday morning

An inmate with a history of alcohol- and drug-related arrests died in the Mecklenburg County jail overnight Sunday.

Allison Jeanne Carpenter, 44, was brought to the jail about 7 p.m. Sunday. She was charged with driving while her license was revoked, giving fictitious information to an officer, fictitious registration card, and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, records show.

Julia Rush, a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman, said Carpenter showered and fell asleep after she was admitted.

Carpenter did not come out of her cell, where she'd spent the night alone, when inmates were called for breakfast Monday morning. Detention officers found her dead after they went to her cell as they prepared to count inmates after breakfast, Rush said.

Officials suspect no foul play but are waiting for autopsy results to determine the cause of Carpenter's death. An autopsy is scheduled for today.

Carpenter had an arrest record dating back to the 1990s. She was on probation for a drug possession conviction, records show.

GARY N. BELL

Published: Feb 05, 2008 07:14 PM
Modified: Feb 05, 2008 07:16 PM
FROM STAFF REPORTS

INMATE DIES OF STAB WOUNDS

LAURINBURG - An inmate died from stab wounds this afternoon at Scotland Correctional Institution, the N.C. Department of Correction said in a news release.

Gary N. Bell suffered multiple stab wounds to the chest, the release said. He collapsed and was pronounced dead by a prison doctor at 1:22 p.m.

Bell, 41, was serving a 12-year sentence after being convicted in Sampson County as a habitual felon in 2002, according to Department of Correction public records.

The State Bureau of Investigation and the Scotland County Sheriff's Department are investigating his death.

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