LAWSUIT: Jim Purdy, 76, Dies After Dozens of Violent Falls in Jefferson County Jail

Killmer Lane, LLP is proud to represent the family of Jim Purdy, who died as a result of the cruel indifference of Jefferson County Sheriff’s personnel and the Jefferson County Jail’s notoriously dangerous, incompetent private medical services provider, VitalCore. Mr. Purdy, who suffered from Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia, fell violently over 70 times over the course of approximately a month’s incarceration at the jail after VitalCore medical staff decided not to provide him with critical medications and Jefferson County personnel incorrectly housed Mr. Purdy in general population.

Though Jefferson County deputies knew of Mr. Purdy’s quickly worsening condition, and directly witnessed his accumulating open wounds over the course of his incarceration, they did nothing to help him, allowing him to fall over and over again until he sustained fatal wounds—a display of the shocking, disgusting indifference to human life and dignity that has led to a constant dirge of death and suffering at the Jefferson County Jail under Sheriff Reggie Marinelli. Killmer Lane, LLP Partners Darold Killmer and Michael Fairhurst have filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of the Purdy family to seek justice for Mr. Purdy’s death and change and accountability at the Jefferson County Jail.

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