By HOI ABC
BLOOMINGTON – A recent investigation into the McLean County jail finds staff failed to give a known, mentally ill detainee his medications, leading to seizures and an injury.
It was sometime before October 2019 that this adult male with both epilepsy and bipolar disorder was booked into the jail.
The report says his mother brought his needed meds to the jail, but they were never given to him.
The Human Rights Authority’s Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commission has now substantiated the claim that that man’s rights were violated.
The report says the day after he was booked into the facility, the detainee had three seizures and was eventually taken by ambulance to the hospital with “large bump above his eye” sustained from a fall during the third seizure.
The report finds the jail violated its own policy by failing to have a nurse on site after 7:00 PM each day.
A lawyer representing the McLean County jail agreed in August that the nursing situation violates jail policy, and states that medical staff there did undergo additional training in May and June.
Read the full complaint report and the county’s response here.
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