The wife of a Richmond man who died last year at the Madison County jail is suing the facility, claiming jail officials used stun guns on her husband more than 40 times, causing cardiac arrest that led to his death.
Rebecca Mansfield’s husband, 43-year-old Johnathan Mansfield, died Oct. 10, 2024, about two weeks after the incident at the jail.
In the two hours he was at the facility, he was placed in a full-body restraint, a hood to stop him from spitting on officials and stunned about 40 times with two devices before entering cardiac arrest, according to the suit…