Wellpath, the company that provides health care services at Santa Rita Jail, will pay $2.3 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed its staff failed to provide adequate care to a man with schizophrenia who languished for days and died in his cell at the East Bay lockup.
The lawsuit, filed in 2022 on behalf of Maurice Monk’s two children, said sheriff’s deputies and Wellpath medical staff tossed food and medication into Monk’s cell as he lay face down on his bed, unresponsive, for three days before a group of them walked into his cell and discovered he was dead on Nov. 15, 2021.
Jail officials “failed to protect and ensure the health and well-being of a man whose life was entirely in their hands,” the family’s attorney, Adanté Pointer, said in a statement…