One year after a Rapides Parish man’s family says he died while wrapped in a suicide-prevention smock with his feet and hands shackled, they are still looking for answers and justice.
Last Friday, Linda Smith filed a lawsuit in federal court in Baton Rouge against Sheriff Sid Gautreaux, the local jail’s medical provider and other jail officials, alleging that her son, Keith Brown, died after a medical crisis went untreated as he was pepper-sprayed, restrained and possibly a victim of excessive force at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
But even as the family seeks answers in court, Smith’s attorney says they still have not received key records from the Sheriff’s Office about Brown’s death nearly a year after he died…