In newly exchanged discovery materials obtained in the case of Coy vs. Billy Woods, former Marion County Jail medical liaison Mary Tolbert Coy expounds on allegations that jail leadership and its medical contractor, the Heart of Florida Health Center, repeatedly ignored warnings of substandard inmate care—even as taxpayers’ costs surged under a multimillion-dollar medical contract.
Coy’s verified answers to interrogatories—which are written questions posed to the opposing party, for which a response is required—portray a system in which her internal reports, monitoring and requests for outside scrutiny were discounted or blocked. Among her claims: “Discovery of falsified mental health inmate medical records, including documented assessments for inmates who were not seen or had been released.”
She also stated that “disabled inmates were denied access to the grievance computer system through security, preventing them from filing medical complaints.”…