[kellyhound]

CLEVELAND, Ohio. For more than two hours, J.A. lay motionless on a mat inside the Cuyahoga County Jail before anyone bothered to check on him, jail security video shows.

A now-indicted officer at one point walked up, kicked his mat and walked away, leaving the 47-year-old inmate to sit another hour until another inmate alerted a different officer. By the time he ended up at MetroHealth, he was dead.

Cuyahoga County released video Friday from its downtown jail that shows his slow death that is at the center of criminal charges against the former warden and the corrections officer accused of ignoring him while he died.

Cleveland.com spent months battling with the county over the video. The county initially denied the video’s release, and cleveland.com filed a complaint with the Ohio Court of Claims on grounds that videos of various instances of suspected wrongdoing at the jail are in the public’s interest.

The county relented and released the video Friday amid ongoing mediation ordered by the Ohio Court of Claims.

It was the second video released by the county related to criminal charges against jail employees.

The most recent video shows the circumstances surrounding his Aug. 27 death.

A grand jury indicted former warden Eric Ivey in April accusing him of ordering corrections officers to turn off their body cameras as the investigated how J.A. died.

Ivey told investigators that he ordered the officers to shudder their body cameras to protect the inmate's medical privacy "when his true purpose was to prevent the evidence from being used in an official proceeding," according to prosecutors.

Also charged in the case is corrections officer Martin Devring, the officer accused of ignoring Arquillo and falsifying documents that said he made his required checks on inmates. The video shows Devring sometimes walking a few feet, then back to his seat and marking down that he checked on all the inmates.

The video shows a routine morning in the pod where J.A. died. It also illustrates some of the spartan conditions in which Cuyahoga County Jail inmates are required to live. Napping inmates lie on thin mats as J.A. lay on the floor slumped against the bottom rung of a built-in shelf.

J.A,, who had been booked into the jail about 3 a.m. that day on a probation violation, laid down next to his mat about 9 a.m. and for about 45 minutes.

He and Devring had a short interaction about 9:15 a.m.

An officer escorted J.A. to the medical unit. He returned to his mat about 15 minutes later and told Devring he didn’t want to eat breakfast, according to documents previous obtained by cleveland.com.

After returning to his mattress about 10:15 a.m., he bent his knees several times, bobbing up and down for about eight minutes as he grabbed at his head.

He hunched over with his head pointed toward the ground and made a slow crawl toward the ground where he curled up next to the mattress.

He was there for an hour and 10 minutes before Devring walked up, kicked his mat and walked away.

Devring in interviews with investigators said he asked J.A. if he wanted to eat lunch. He said J.A. responded by mumbling and saying he wasn’t hungry and just wanted to sleep, documents say.

In the video, J.A. doesn’t appear to move when Devring walks up. There also doesn’t appear to be any interaction between the two.

An inmate about 12:50 p.m. finally noticed the awkward position in which J.A. was lying and called over another inmate. The inmates summoned a corrections officer who filled in for Devring during his break.

That officer is seen on the video calling for a medical team. The guard gave him CPR until other officers and medical staff arrived. An ambulance took him to MetroHealth.

He didn’t survive.

Ivey can be seen on the video walking into the jail about 1:10 p.m.. He talked with several officers during the 20 minutes he remained in the pod. He stayed after paramedics wheeled him out on a gurney, making calls and looking through documents before leaving about 1:30 p.m.

Devring, 60, was charged in February with tampering with evidence, dereliction of duty and interfering with civil rights. He was fired Dec. 4 for his actions related to the death.

The county medical examiner ruled that J.A. died with heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and Valium in his system.

His was one of seven deaths in 2018 inside the troubled county jail the U.S. Marshalls Service deemed “inhuman” in an inspection that took place months after the first inmate died in June of last year. Another inmate died this year.

Ivey and eight jail officers have been indicted in the corruption investigation that began as an inquiry into the county’s IT department. That investigation has since pivoted to include suspected wrongdoing at the jail.

A total of 12 people are currently indicted, and federal authorities are investigating the jail for possible civil-rights violations.

Ivey’s former boss, jail director Ken Mills, was also indicted on accusations that he lied to investigators and Cuyahoga County Council about his role in blocking the hiring of nurses at the jail.

A federal grand jury issued a subpoena in December asking for records of the first seven inmate deaths, including J.A.. They also sought sweeping documents of inmate abuse by officers and records of inmates who received no or poor medical care in the jail.

[DaveTheBassist]

They may be inmates and he may be a junkie, but for some reason I felt bad for him and literally want the absolute worst for that piece of shit officer.

[Karma]

“The video shows a routine morning in the pod where J.A. died. It also illustrates some of the spartan conditions in which Cuyahoga County Jail inmates are required to live. Napping inmates lie on thin mats ”

So? It’s a jail. Not a hotel. No sympathy for prisoners. It’s meant to be punishment not luxury living.

[HeyJealousy]

Originally Posted by Karma ↗

“The video shows a routine morning in the pod where J.A. died. It also illustrates some of the spartan conditions in which Cuyahoga County Jail inmates are required to live. Napping inmates lie on thin mats ”

So? It’s a jail. Not a hotel. No sympathy for prisoners. It’s meant to be punishment not luxury living.

Are you THAT blind? Do you know what a twisted, sick joke our criminal justice system has become?

You have harmless kids whose only crime is getting baked and enjoying life. They don’t harm you or me, and yet they’re thrown into those cluttered cells where they are forced to co-exist with sadistic thugs, cold-hearted wardens and unsanitary conditions like this. They are reduced to mere mince meat, shat on, spat on, for YEARS and YEARS, all because they want to get high. And you expect them to function in spite of all this?

This kind of barbaric mindset (“hurr durr, having fun is a crime against humanity!”)
breeds all the violence in this country. We are being trained and groomed to be miserable, bitter wage slaves with no purpose in life other than work our fingers to the bone, only to find that there is no payoff.

If this is the American Way (tm), then—-is it any wonder why we are being laughed at?

[Heavy]

This wasn’t a nice kid having fun, you fucking twit.
He was a lifelong waste.
He was going to die, period.

[piepants]

Originally Posted by Karma ↗

“The video shows a routine morning in the pod where J.A. died. It also illustrates some of the spartan conditions in which Cuyahoga County Jail inmates are required to live. Napping inmates lie on thin mats ”

So? It’s a jail. Not a hotel. No sympathy for prisoners. It’s meant to be punishment not luxury living.

Being in jail is the punishment. 90% of prisoners are going to be released. You treat people like animals and then are surprised when they act like them.

How can you defend a man who for all intents and purposes robbed the state and its taxpayers. He is paid to check on the welfare of the prisoners regularly.

You understand how much more money the tax payers are going to lose from the lawsuit?

You are one of the those conservative pull up by your boot straps kind of asshole I bet. Although you don’t mind a state employee neglecting his duties.

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[MonkeyJones1980]

Originally Posted by Heavy ↗

This wasn’t a nice kid having fun, you fucking twit.
He was a lifelong waste.
He was going to die, period.

You don’t know that any of that is true. He could have made some stupid choices and might still be alive if custody had done their jobs correctly. The correctional system is a joke as far as medical care. There are absolute pieces of shit in jails and prisons, but there are also some that just made a bad choice that didn’t hurt anyone but themselves. And, of course, the scores of wrongfully convicted that shouldn’t even be there in the first place. And I say all of this as a nurse in a maximum security prison. They wait days or weeks to be seen because of understaffing. They don’t get their medications ordered/delivered to the facility in a timely manner. They can’t get preferred methods of treatments because it’s not listed as being “formulary”. And, sometimes, they get officers like this who don’t do their JOBS correctly and they suffer immeasurably or die. I’m sorry, but if we’re going to try to keep them alive long enough so that they can be executed, then we need to try to keep them alive to carry out their sentence, regardless of what they did (or didn’t) do. It’s part of the responsibility of working in corrections.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Karma ↗

“The video shows a routine morning in the pod where J.A. died. It also illustrates some of the spartan conditions in which Cuyahoga County Jail inmates are required to live. Napping inmates lie on thin mats ”

So? It’s a jail. Not a hotel. No sympathy for prisoners. It’s meant to be punishment not luxury living.

What people fail to realise is having your liberty taken away from you is punishment enough, that's the point of prison.

Treating people like animals makes them behave as such, it's true that it shouldn't be a hotel but neither should it be a concentration camp.

People talk about rehabilitation like that really does exist, it doesn't.

[Steve]

This is Martin Devring wondering to what extent the D.A is going to fuck him, will it be an ass fucking or will it be a destroyed anus adult diapers for the rest of his life ass fucking.