"I don't want to die in your cell" Police body camera footage recorded Jones saying this approximately 15 hours before her body was found in her jail cell.
Officers speaking with Jones seemed polite and just as concerned, clarifying what medication she needed and was currently taking, and listening to her problems. When Jones complained that her worries had been dismissed by another officer, who apparently yelled at her, one officer said, “I sympathize with you. I addressed them about it. That won’t happen again.”
~ The Root
Though her death was ruled an accident, "[A] review of the jail’s protocols, including for drug-dispensing and record-keeping, is pending by the Ohio department of rehabilitation and correction. A spokeswoman for the prisons department has said it will ask Cleveland Heights to create an improvement plan if it finds state jail standards were not met."
~ The Guardian
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