Black folks dying in disgusting, vermin-infested, egregiously-neglected jails has turn out to be extra frequent today as BOSSIP has reported on deadly incidents at each Fulton County Jail in Atlanta and most lately at Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

Sadly, we’ve got to report yet one more title so as to add to that ever-growing record. In line with The Telegraph, a 49-year-old Missouri man named Zareef M. Fawaz died March 31, 2024 on in custody at Madison County jail after allegedly being denied drugs that he desperately wanted. Ubiquitous civil rights legal professional Ben Crump and Richard Banks are representing the household and lately introduced plans to file a wrongful dying lawsuit on Fawaz’s birthday one 12 months later.

“As an alternative of celebrating his birthday, they’re having to return right here and battle for justice for a tragedy that by no means ought to have occurred,” he stated, calling it pointless, unjustifiable and unconstitutional.

March 22, 2024, Fawaz was arrested home battery and theft. Crump says Fawaz advised jail officers that he had a medical situation that would trigger blood clots saying, “He stated, ‘I bought to get my drugs, as a result of if I don’t get my drugs I’ll die,’”. In line with BND, Crump spoke to the truth that this case is about extra than simply the best way Zareef Fawaz was handled.

It’s merciless and strange punishment for a sick man to beg and plead for his drugs and also you deny him that drugs,” Crump stated. “… It’s not nearly Zareef. When you have a beloved one who occurs to be in jail and so they’re asking for his or her drugs, then make sure that you simply don’t take it with no consideration that they may observe the Structure in Madison County.”

Neither Jail Administrator Jerry Endicott nor Madison County Sheriff Jeff Connor responded to requests by BND for a public assertion on the matter.