Staff at a Washington state jail ignored the deteriorating health of a 58-year-old inmate despite persistent vomiting leading to her death from dehydration and an electrolyte imbalance, a lawsuit claims.
The family of DeAnna Davis filed a lawsuit against King County and several staff last week after she died at the King County Correctional Facility in Seattle nearly three years ago. Family members accuse the jail of deliberate indifference to a serious medical need and violating her 14th Amendment rights.
Plaintiff lawyers claim Davis’ health deteriorated over four days and jail staff did nothing to prevent her “foreseeable” death. Her attorneys called it “death by observation.”…