 | Tulsa County is now forced to pay massive settlements for what ought to be regarded as criminal mistreatment of the mentally ill. Elliot Williams was a 37 year old military veteran. He was left to die in an isolation cell at the Tulsa County jail. In 2011, he was demonstrating psychotic and suicidal behavior at an Owasso hotel. The local cop decided to treat him as a criminal rather than a very sick person. He was booked into the Tulsa County jail where his untreated psychosis continued. The jailer decided that the man was faking it when he rammed his head into a concrete wall and collapsed to the floor. They decided that they knew he was a faker, so they had the motion-activated video system monitoring his conduct. Then he died of dehydration. |
The former medical services corporation who were supposed to care for the man finally settled out-of-court with the family, for their behavior. But Stanley Glanz diverted jail expansion funds to pay some attorneys to fight the federal lawsuit.
A more detailed report of the jail timeline can be read at Asa Jay's post.
A more detailed report of the jail timeline can be read at Asa Jay's post.
| |  We've provided the video which the Tulsa Sheriff's office made, in their attempt to prove that the psychotic man was faking all of this paralysis. KJRH Channel 2's Darcy Jackson came on the Pat Campbell Show to discuss the case. Listen to that interview, here. Darcy also filed this short report. |
