The family says in a lawsuit that they were told the 33-year-old would get mental health aid in prison. Instead, they say, guards tased the man and locked him in a freezer.
Anthony “Tony” Mitchell, 33, alarmed his cousin Steve Mitchell when he showed up at Steve’s Alabama house last month, looking thin and much older than he had months before.
Anthony was acting psychotic, insisting he must enter a “portal to hell” in his mother’s attic to retrieve the body of his long-ago stillborn brother.If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.
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