A Hamilton County family has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit this week, alleging their loved one died while withdrawing from opioids at the Hamilton County Justice Center in November 2024. The complaint, submitted in Hamilton County court, names the sheriff and the jail’s private medical contractor and claims staff failed to provide critical care. According to the filing, inmate Jacob Grayson vomited, became dehydrated and collapsed in his cell, and deputies were told not to bring him to the medical unit because it was “female day.”
Complaint lays out alleged timeline and missed care
The complaint says that after Grayson first passed out, deputies called the jail’s medical unit and were told to leave him in his cell, according to the family. About 90…..