Joshua McLemore, a 29-year-old man who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, died of starvation after being held naked and alone in a padded isolation cell at Indiana’s Jackson County Jail. A complaint filed in federal court alleges that the jail violated McLemore’s Fourteenth Amendment rights and failed to follow its own solitary confinement policies. Though jail policy requires people in solitary to receive at least one hour out-of-cell each day, McLemore was allowed to leave his cell only three times during his 20 days in solitary. USA Today
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