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September 25, 2015 09:26 am PDT
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Jailers watched as man arrested for unpaid traffic fine dies naked on cell floor
David Stojcevski, 32, was sentenced to 30 days in Michigan's Macomb County jail for failing to pay a traffic fine. He was addicted to drugs but the jail refused to treat him so he died. Reason reports that over the "next 17 days of his incarceration in a brightly lit cell where he was denied clothing he lost 50 pounds, suffered convulsions, and eventually began to hallucinate. He died in agony, from a combination of obvious, untreated drug withdrawal and galling neglect." Jailers were able to see him on a security monitor the entire time, but they simply allowed him to suffer and die.
Stojcevskis parents are suing the county. A lawyer for Macomb county said the suit lacks legal merit, and the county has no plans to settle.
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