The wife of an accused sex offender who committed suicide after the denial of his bail reduction request blames the medical staff at the prison for not properly monitoring her husband's psychiatric condition, according to a wrongful death suit filed at the U. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Pamela Minnich, of Media, Pa. According to the complaint, Minnich's husband, David, was arrested on Oct.
Having never been incarcerated before, Minnich began to display signs of extreme anxiety, the complaint says. According to the claim, Minnich came under the care of medical staff employed by Prime Care Medical and was placed on a schedule for a psychiatrist. The complaint accuses the defendants of deliberately delaying the psychiatric appointment and ignored Minnich's increased warnings that his mental state was deteriorating.
He was finally seen on Dec. Minnich was a former drug and alcohol abuser, that he had been accused of committing a sex crime against a minor, that he was facing serious jail time, and that he had never been incarcerated before," the complaint says.
Minnich was particularly vulnerable to suicide. On Dec. The claim says that the prison and medical staff failed to place Minnich on an appropriate suicide watch or provide mental health treatment or medication. The plaintiffs say that the lack of action not only displayed deliberate indifference for the safety of inmates and detainees, but was also an accepted policy by the county government as a way to save money.
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