Sheriff refuses to turn over jailhouse video after 32-year-old gay man dies of 'natural causes'

[TexasTowelie]

The family of a 32-year-old gay man who died in a Texas jail want more answers as to why he was denied his medication that led to the seizures that killed him, reports KTRK.

With Texas lawmakers looking into jailhouse reform in the wake of the recent death of Sandra Bland in Houston, the parents of Jesse Jacobs have come forward to discuss their son’s death after he turned himself into a Galveston jail to serve a DUI sentence, only to die within a week.

The parents of Jacobs, who died in March, want an investigation into what happened in the jail, however the sheriff — on the advice of the Galveston County Attorney– is refusing to turn over video fearing a lawsuit.

Jacobs voluntarily entered jail to serve his 30 days, with the hope that he would only have to stay for 12 days with time off for good behavior. However after being processed, jailhouse medical personnel denied him the prescribed Xanax he had been taking for ten years to treat a severe anxiety disorder. A week after being denied the drug Jacobs began experiencing seizures, a known side-effect of Xanax withdrawal.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/texas-sheriff-refuses-to-turn-over-jailhouse-video-after-32-year-old-gay-man-dies-of-natural-causes/

[C Moon]

1. "Galveston, oh Galveston"

That's really messed up.
So sad for his family.

[cstanleytech]

2. Fearing a lawsuit? That wont stop them from filing one and if anything a jury could look down at the

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police department even more and hit them with a larger penalty.

[McCamy Taylor]

3. Sounds like malpractice to me. However Texas malpractice caps are extremely low

so the family should probably go after the sheriff who hired the medical staff that killed him.