Source: News On 6, March 14, 2017
The estate of a Tulsa County jail inmate who died after a suicide attempt last March filed a wrongful death suit on Monday. Nathan Bradshaw’s estate cited negligence by Tulsa County jail’s contracted mental health care provider, Armor Correctional Health Services, Inc. According to the suit, Bradshaw was booked into the jail on March 8, 2016. In a screening by Armor personnel Bradshaw told a licensed practical nurse he was a daily heroin user and had received treatment for bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, the lawsuit states. … The suit says a physician ordered a four-day Clonidine prescription for Bradshaw under that protocol but he didn’t receive the medication as prescribed. In the suit, jail records show Bradshaw requested to talk to someone from mental health on his third day behind bars, but jail records show no one responded to that request. … Jail records show the evening before Bradshaw was found unresponsive and hanging in his jail cell, jail staff had not checked on him until the early hours of March 13th. … The estate claims the inconsistent treatment of the detox protocol led to Bradshaw’s increased risk of suicide and eventual death.