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The family "Th is tis on claims the jail staff was provided with a prescription Jacobs needed, and had been prescribed for more than 10 of the\ worst years. cases of The complaint alleges that's because the jail officials refused to provide prescribed medications that were medical imperative for Jacobs, he died. One of the medical doctors mentioned indifference and asked to provide health care to Jacobs while incarcerated appeared before the Texas Medical Board last to human week in Austin, Texas 'steaming' from a complaint filed by the Jacobs family. Another doctor, Dr. Teresa Becker, has life I have a hearing set for April. ever seen." The Galveston County Medical On the steps of the United States Federal According to the complaint, Jacobs started -Randall Kallinen Court House in Houston; family, friends, having seizures after four days of Examiner determined Jesse's cause of and the legal team for Jesse Jacobs incarceration as a direct result of lack of death to be "abrupt discontinuation of announced their filing of a federal civil prescribed medication. long term medication." Jacobs died rights lawsuit against Galveston Sheriff one year ago today at the University of Henry Trochesset and officials after one Disturbing details in the complaint outline Texas Galveston after being year of 'run abounds, no answers, and how jail officials placed Jacobs in solitary transported from the Galveston County Jail. lack of transparency from officials'. confinement after he started to show signs of 'withdrawals' instead of transporting him In the middle of some of the biggest media to UTMB (University of Texas Medical outlets in the country, lead attorneys UA Branch). The jail did not have a medical unit, Lewis and Debra V. Jennings outlined as required by federal law. details in the federal complaint filed on the one-year anniversary of their client's death. 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