Cuyahoga County settled the lawsuit with Joshua Castleberry more than four years after a corrections officers beat him, strapped him to a restraint chair and failed to give him medical attention for hours while he bled profusely in an isolated jail cell.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County agreed to pay $239,000 to a U.S. Army veteran diagnosed with schizophrenia who needed facial reconstruction surgery after a pummeling by a jail officer, according to probate court records.with Joshua Castleberry more than four years after a corrections officers beat Castleberry, strapped him to a restraint chair and failed to give him medical attention for four hours while he bled profusely in an isolated Cuyahoga County Jail cell.
Castleberry, 27, served in the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and in the last two years, his condition has worsened, according to probate court records. His mother,Castleberry lost three teeth during the Feb. 18, 2018, beating at the jail, including one tooth that lodged in his nasal cavity.
The unit was harshly criticized in a U.S. Marshals Service investigation and its members are defendants in several of the lawsuits filed against the county.at trial that he asked Wilson for a new sandwich because the jail’s bread was stale. Wilson refused, went into Castleberry’s cell and ordered Castleberry against the wall.
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