After Jennifer Wade died in the Cuyahoga County jail last year, a county spokesperson said that she had suffered from preexisting medical conditions. Jail staff tried to save the 41-year-old when they found her unresponsive in the early morning, the spokesperson said, but she died after being taken by ambulance to a hospital.
State inspectors found no policy or procedural errors in how the staff responded.
But new body camera videos — which were never provided to the inspectors — show that Wade was left lying on the concrete floor of her jail cell for hours before anyone sounded the alarm. Even then, more than 20 minutes lapsed before nurses began to administer CPR…