The family Maurice Monk of Oakland died in Santa Rita Jail filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that the 45-year-old man was denied adequate health care. He was arrested for not wearing a mask on a bus.
filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that the 45-year-old man was denied adequate health care: He was originally arrested because he didn't wear a mask on a bus.
A representative from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond for comment on Monday."It's unfortunate when a person passes away at our jail," Kelly said in an email. "Many of the people who come to us suffer from serious illness, poverty and lack of access to regular external health care in the community."Tiffany Monk told KTVU last year that her brother's death was far from natural, despite his health ailments.
In an interview, his sister, Elvira Monk, said her brother suffered from mental illness and said he couldn't breathe in the mask. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Barbara Dickinson refused to lower his $2,500 bail. Elvira Monk had contacted the jail to let them know her brother needed to take his prescribed medications.
Monk's autopsy has still not been made public, though a death certificate provided to the family indicates he died of hypertensive cardiovascular disease. KTVU regularly receives calls from formerly incarcerated people and their families saying they are not given medication in a timely fashion and drug and alcohol users routinely complain that they are not given methadone or other methods to curb their addictions while in jail.
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