The state has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in the death of a prisoner who died of a heart attack after he was placed on suicide watch at Hālawa Correctional Facility while he was withdrawing from a prescribed drug used to treat opioid addiction.
The lawsuit over the death of Brian Kimo O’Gorman, 43, alleges the medical staff at Hālawa Correctional Facility failed to provide appropriate treatment for O’Gorman as he suffered hallucinations and other severe withdrawal symptoms for nearly two weeks after he was sent to Hālawa in early 2022.
Richard Turbin, one of the lawyers for O’Gorman’s estate, said O’Gorman died of dehydration that caused heart failure as he was withdrawing from methadone…