The family of Anthony Don Mitchell, a mentally ill man who died in an Alabama jail, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was kept naked in a concrete cell and may have been placed in a freezer or other frigid environment. The lawsuit states that an emergency room doctor who tried unsuccessfully to revive Mitchell wrote that hypothermia was the ultimate cause of his death. The family is seeking unspecified damages and a jury trial.
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Anthony Mitchell, a 33-year-old pretrial detainee at the Walker County Jail in Alabama, died after being left naked on a concrete jail floor for days and being transported to the hospital with dangerously low body temperature. His family has filed a lawsuit alleging negligence by the jail staff, and the FBI has joined the investigation. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial, in the hopes of bringing justice for Mitchell and preventing similar tragedies in the future.