While a lawsuit was filed against them, the real question is why aren't people who are blantly mentally ill committed to a federal or state mental health facility?

Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/14/larry-price-jail-death-lawsuit/

What was the crime anyway?

In August of 2020, Price walked into a police station in Fort Smith, Ark., and began acting erratically, at one point mimicking shooting a gun with his fingers and verbally threatening officers, according to the complaint.

Seems like perfectly normal activity during that time period anyway with cops being trashed on for their bullshit.

Due to his mental health issues, Price spent much of his year in pretrial detention in segregated housing, which requires well-being checks every 15 minutes. Heipt said jail staffers were either falsifying the reports and not checking on him, or ignoring his deteriorating condition.

So official misconduct that extends beyond just this man. Who else's reports did they falsify? Who else did they ignore?

By the time Price died alone in a Sebastian County, Ark., jail cell in 2021, he weighed 121 pounds. Autopsy images show his emaciated body, his cheeks sunken, his collarbones and ribs protruding through his skin and his legs wasted away. The soles of his feet were swollen, white and wrinkled from standing in water in his jail cell.
Price’s relatives allege in a wrongful-death lawsuit filed Friday in an Arkansas federal court that Price, who was unhoused and lived with severe mental illness, was allowed to starve to death over a year in pretrial detention due to neglect by jail staff and its private health contractor. It names the jail, Turn Key Health Clinics and several staffers — both named and unnamed — as defendants.

Death by starvation was recorded in 2021. Supposedly there is a mEnTaL hEaLtH cRiSiS in this country, so where are the mental health care facilities to commit people? Why jail people where they don't want or care for mental illness? Oh right..., Republicans say there is, but don't act because it is too expensive. Apparently, lawsuits aren't expensive enough.