In about four months in 2022, while Mary Faith Casey was held in the Pima County jail, she lost more than 50 pounds. In August of that year, when a Pima Superior Court judge saw Mary’s emaciated frame as she entered the courtroom in a wheelchair, he dropped her charges and ordered her to be taken to the emergency room.
Doctors at the hospital struggled to bring Mary back to health, but after almost a month, released her to hospice care. Her children took her to California where she died from protein calorie malnutrition, according to a recent article about Mary’s case and starvation in jails.
“Mary Faith Casey is among the list of people who died in 2022 in connection with their time in the Pima County Jail, and her death should be officially acknowledged as such,” Andrea Woods, an attorney representing Mary’s family in a lawsuit against Pima County and the jail’s medical provider, told Arizona Luminaria…