Four people died in the jail run by Sheriff David Clarke in 2016, and now an indictment is being handed down for one of those deaths. 38 year-old Terrill Thomas died in his Milwaukee County jail cell, after staffers allegedly turned off his water for one week.
Here are more details from the Daily Beast.
The indictment stems from an April incident, during which the jail allegedly turned off the water in 38-year-old Terrill Thomas’ cell for a week. Thomas died of what Milwaukee’s medical examiner described as “profound dehydration.” The grand jury inquest focused on two jail supervisors and five correctional officers, and did not target Clarke.
The seven staffers are being charged with abuse of a resident of a penal facility, but Clarke has escaped any charges for now. Let’s see which one of these seven will be the first to make a deal with prosecutors in exchange for implicating Clarke.