Family files lawsuit after woman dies in Mineral County jail

https://mynews4.com ^ | Wednesday, September 5th 2018 | by Melissa Matheney|

[BackRoads775]

HAWTHORNE, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — The family of a 27-year-old woman who died in a jail cell in Mineral County has filed a lawsuit arguing deputies left her to die after ignoring her serious medical needs.

Kelly Coltrain was jailed in July of 2017 for unpaid traffic tickets after she was pulled over for speeding.

[conservative98]

Death for parking tickets sounds fair. /S

[JoSixChip]

Death for parking tickets sounds fair.

In today's environment, if she has any association with Trump she got off easy.

[Nifster]

Did she bother to tell them she was a junkie and was detoxing?

[DoughtyOne]

According to the lawsuit, three days later she was found dead in her jail cell after she was denied medical treatment while she was withdrawing from heroin.

While there was certainly a problem with the officers not taking her condition seriously, she sure didn't improve her life by getting herself into that situation.

If you're so far strung out that you will die without serious medical intervention, in all likelihood you'd have been dead inside a year anyway.

I'm not a physician, so that may be somewhat off base, but it does seem that way to me.

[conservative98]

She asked to go to the hospital and that’s where they should’ve taken her.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The video documents the three days Coltrain sat in jail convulsing and vomiting before her death.

Jail is no place for a sick person.

[ncalburt]

Why didn’t the family pay her fines or bail her out ?
They let her sit there for three days ?

[PAR35]

A heroin addict dies. Not the cops fault for not keeping her supplied.

[PAR35]

She asked to go to the hospital and that’s where they should’ve taken her.

So everyone in jail should get to stay at the hospital instead, if they ask?

After all, the taxpayers can pay the hospital bill.

[bert]

no bail because she might die in jail and we can sue the county for negligence.

[Robert DeLong]

Probably couldn’t afford to?

[Bon mots]

They murdered this poor woman over parking tickets?

[Bon mots]

They murdered this poor woman over parking tickets?

Oh wait... she was a junkie and died of withdrawal...

I withdraw my concern.

[Calvin Locke]

Years ago, I read a short scifi story about a guy being put to death for too many speeding tickets.

Body parts, don'tcha know.

[conservative98]

everyone in jail should get to stay at the hospital instead, if they ask?

After all, the taxpayers can pay the hospital bill.

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Maybe if they are convulsing and vomiting.

Now the taxpayers will have a bigger bill.

[Mears]

They didn’t MURDER anyone.

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[bert]

murder?

didn’t they rape her to death?

[peteypupperdoo]

The problem is, this can happen if you are an alcoholic as well. And most of us know people or have family members who are functioning alcoholics. You CAN die from abrupt alcohol withdrawal. I know of two people who died in jail as a result of acute alcohol withdrawal and it’s just sad. Their lives were sad, their deaths were sad. I am unsure of this poor woman’s family situation. Had they had enough and decided to not to bail her out? No money for bail? Regardless, I believe she should have been treated at a hospital, then allowed to finish her jail time. Addiction is sad, just sad to me.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#6: "She asked to go to the hospital and that’s where they should’ve taken her."

Yes, just as basic Christianity or Judaism instructs us. The woman didn't deserve a death sentence.