Advocates said the charges she faced were eventually dropped, but it came at a price that caused her to suffer extreme trauma. Meanwhile, the county found the jail is still non-compliant with state standards.
Mikayla Savage filed a federal lawsuit against Harris County, nearly two years after she said she was assaulted behind bars and forced to miscarry.The Harris County Jail is under fire again after a woman filed a lawsuit claiming the alleged physical and sexual assault she suffered while incarcerated caused her to have a miscarriage. The claim announced on Tuesday came as new information presented to county officials shows that the jail remains non-compliant with state standards.
"She was assaulted by a guard to the point of miscarrying her pregnancy. She was forced to endure an abortion alone. She was gang-raped with a foreign object and tied up by several prisoners. Without any assistance from the guards there, she had chemicals and urine thrown on her," Nemeth said. "What she went through in the jail was so heinous that she attempted suicide multiple times in a three-month period.
The latest data presented to commissioners indicated that there are still approximately 190 vacant positions at the Harris County Jail. The vacancy rate averaged 11% in 2023, starting at 9% initially and peaking at 14% in the fall. "It chews people up, it spits them out, and it puts them in a place where they can't ever rehabilitate. They can't get jobs, they can't get housing, they can't have relationships with their families like they had before," Nemeth said.The jail was first cited back in 2022 for being in violation of not providing timely medical care and keeping people in holding cells past the legal time limit.
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