Tony Mitchell, 33, died at Walker County Jail in Alabama on 26 January 2023, after being arrested on 12 January.
A former prison officer has pleaded guilty to criminal charges after an inmate froze to death in a US jail. He was detained after his cousin asked officers to do a welfare check on him over concerns he was talking about 'portals to heaven and hell' and suffering a mental breakdown. Joshua Conner Jones, a prison officer there at the time, agreed to a guilty plea on one count of conspiracy to deprive an inmate of their rights after Mr Mitchell was left naked in his concrete cell.
Mr Mitchell, who had a history of drug addiction, died after being brought from the jail to hospital, where medics found he had a temperature of 22C . Hypothermia, which can be fatal, is diagnosed when the body drops below 35C . A normal body temperature is around 37C .
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