McLemore case settled for $7.25 million in Jackson County lawsuit - Seymour Tribune

McLemoreThe Jackson County Sheriff’s Department is at 150 E. State Road 250, Brownstown.Tribune file photoBROWNSTOWN — Jackson County has agreed to a $7.25 million settlement to resolve a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the surviving relative of an inmate suffering from an acute mental health crisis who died in 2021 after spending 20 days in solitary confinement at the Jackson County Jail.The inmate, Joshua McLemore, 29, died in August 2021 from multiple organ failure as a result of dehydration and malnutrition after being locked naked in a padded isolation cell for nearly “every second of every day for almost three straight weeks,” according to a complaint filed earlier this year by Melita Ladner, McLemore’s aunt and the court-appointed administrator of his estate.The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in New Albany, names Jackson County; Jackson County Sheriff Rick Meyer; Jackson County Jail Commander Chris Everhart; Scott Ferguson, a night shift sergeant at the jail; and Mi...