She begged for help while fighting a ‘preventable’ infection. She died after the jail finally listened to her, lawsuit says.

Madelyn Linsenmeir limped into the Springfield Police Department’s jail on the evening of Sept. 29, 2018, and nearly cried when an officer took off her right shoe. Her feet were swollen. She told the officers she couldn’t breathe, and she thought her chest was going to cave in.

“Are you ill?” the officer asked, as he booked Linsenmeir into the Massachusetts jail on a warrant from New Hampshire and charges of giving a false name to an officer.

“Yeah, I’m very ill right now,” Linsenmeir told him. “I can’t even think straight. I’m gonna literally pass out from pain.”

She begged for help while fighting a ‘preventable’ infection. She died after the jail finally listened to her, lawsuit says. REGVQJUFAVHSTIVALZ3273SGPY

She begged for help while fighting a ‘preventable’ infection. She died after the jail finally listened to her, lawsuit says. REGVQJUFAVHSTIVALZ3273SGPY

Linsenmeir, who had struggled with opioid addiction for her entire adult life, told the officers she thought she needed to go to the hospital. But despite her pleas, the only place Linsenmeir would be going was a jail cell, according to a federal lawsuit recently filed by her family. Once transferred to the county jail, she would again plead for medical help — and would again be denied treatment, until she was found unresponsive in her cell six days after her arrest.
Linsenmeir died in the hospital of a heart infection on Oct. 7, 2018 — one her family says was entirely treatable and preventable, if only the two jails would have gotten her help.

Linsenmeir’s family has now filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department, the City of Springfield and several officers, alleging their indifference to her repeated cries for help and medical attention led to her death. In the days before she died, jail staff at the women’s correctional center told Linsenmeir her pain was “her own fault for using drugs,” according to the lawsuit, filed March 5 in Massachusetts.

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/09/opioid-addiction-jail-death/

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She begged for help while fighting a ‘preventable’ infection. She died after the jail finally listened to her, lawsuit says.

She begged for help while fighting a ‘preventable’ infection. She died after the jail finally listened to her, lawsuit says.

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