The DOJ launched a civil rights investigation into South Carolina jails after the death of Lason Butler.

The Department of Justice found themselves another jail to probe following the gruesome death of a Black inmate. The victim’s family says his body was found riddled with rat bites in his solitary confinement cell.

    • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      https://www.wistv.com/2022/08/03/watch-family-inmate-that-died-custody-alvin-s-glenn-launches-lawsuit/

      she attempted to bail her son out and had the money to do it but was told her there was a hold on her son’s release

      Not for lack of trying.

      That said,

      Butler had been in custody since Jan. 31 and was facing traffic charges that included reckless driving, failure to stop for a blue light and driving with a suspended license.

      Yeah I’m not surprised that they’d arrest him. He’d already had his license suspended for something, and continued to drive, apparently in a reckless manner. Apparently this guy was dangerous on the road, and didn’t respect the non-arrest consequence, so jail it is. Still, that doesn’t mean he deserves a shitty jail cell, let alone solitary confinement or death, especially not a torturous death by dehydration and rat bites.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        4·
        8 months ago

        The blue light charge was probably fake. I got hit with running a police barricade once for not seeing a knocked over traffic cone. Went to traffic court and fought it. They eventually made it a 20 dollar failure to yield no points.

        We keep thinking the law is this scared thing and it is really just a question of cost and benefit. The city decided fighting me wasn’t worth the amount extracted.