ELLSWORTH — The mother of a Bucksport man who hung himself in a Hancock County Jail cell two years ago this month has filed a civil rights suit against Hancock
Jail sued over 2018 inmate suicide death
ELLSWORTH The Hancock County Jail, Sheriff Scott Kane and several members of his corrections staff are being sued in the U.S. District Court of Maine by the husband of a woman who died by suicide in her jail cell in 2018.
Stewart Carney Jr. of Brewer, who is being represented by Hampden attorney Carl McCue, alleges that Monica Johnson’s death was “unlawful.” The American could not reach McCue for comment before press time.
“The decisions made regarding policies for the protection of detainees’ physical safety, and the medical and psychiatric policies by these defendants, directly and adversely affected the decedent’s ability to be safe,” the suit states. “The decedent died as a result of the unlawful actions of the above-named defendants.”