Prisoner – Deliberate Indifference

By: Derek Hawkins//September 13, 2021//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Jacqueline Jones v. Arnold Mathews, et al.,

Case No.: 19-2629

Officials: SYKES, Chief Judge, and BRENNAN and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Prisoner – Deliberate Indifference

On November 30, 2015, Toya Frazier reported to the Champaign County Satellite Jail to begin serving a 42-month sentence for felony theft. She died in her cell less than 36 hours later. Jacqueline Jones is Frazier’s sister and the Independent Administrator of Frazier’s estate. She filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Sergeant Arnold Mathews, a correctional officer at the jail, alleging that he caused Frazier’s death by acting with deliberate indifference to Frazier’s symptoms of heroin withdrawal. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants, and we affirm.

Affirmed
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Derek A Hawkins is Corporate Counsel, at Salesforce.

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