“This case,” the suit says, “therefore presents an appalling question: how does a man literally freeze to death while incarcerated in a modern climate-controlled jail, in the custody and care of corrections officers?”
Anthony Mitchell, 33, alarmed his cousin Steve Mitchell when he showed up at his house, looking thin and much older than months before, acting psychotic, and insisting he must enter a “portal to hell” in his mother’s attic to retrieve the body of his long-ago stillborn brother. After a 911 call,
“While Tony languished naked and dying of hypothermia,” the lawsuit says, “numerous corrections officers and medical staff wandered over to his open cell door to spectate and be entertained by his condition.” Mitchell, who had a history of addiction to methamphetamine, lived with his father in Carbon Hill, Alabama. His mother paid his utility bills and brought him food, according to the lawsuit.
Steve took Tony to show him there was no box in the attic before calling 911 and reporting Tony’s mental breakdown and asking for an ambulance. Sheriff’s officers arrived at Tony’s house and found him in a psychotic state, according to the complaint and according to reports at the time. His face was spray painted black so he could enter the portal to hell in the attic.
The suit says Mitchell was put in an isolation cell, not meant to hold inmates, in the booking area of the Walker County Jail where he was left for most of the 14 days before his death. He was not given medical care, according to the suit. One video showed Mitchell being dragged, naked, across the floor by officers, according to the family’s suit. Another, from January 15, two days after he was taken to jail, shows him being tased, naked, by a group of officers in the doorway of his isolation cell, the family’s suit says.
The suit says the jail kitchen typically opens at 3 a.m. and Mitchell was not taken to the hospital until 8:30 a.m. At 8:30 a.m. officers removed Mitchell from his cell in a wheelchair. He was dressed in an orange jail uniform. He fell out of the wheelchair outside the cell and deputies put him back in it. His body made slow and spasmodic movements, according to the complaint. Deputies then picked up Mitchel and dragged him back into the cell, according to the complaint.
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