A guard has been fired for leaking the video that shows Mitchell being taken unresonsive to the sherriff’s vehicle and proving that officials lied about him being conscious and talking.
Mitchell was apparently kept in a concrete cell for two weeks, no bedding and thin clothing only. That is enough to cause hypothermia, the concrete pulls the heat out of the body. A person in hypothermia tends not to stabilize without intervention, becoming more confused, less responsive, less able to care for himself, may even strip off his clothing in the last stages.
I once had a schizophrenic, deeply hypothermic, unresponsive patient. His family was at the end of their ability to cope, they left him in a basement without checking on him for 36 hours. One of the two most distressing cases I had as an EMT.
Who ever fire the guard needs to be fire immediately. The guard needs to be reinstated. And it sounds like some people need to go down for murder.
You didn’t want to be an Alcatraz prisoner. They’d sleep on cold concrete, supporting their bodies lengthwise, using their arms.