due to an outbreak of bedbugs, vermin and overcrowding. that s according to the fulton county sheriff and this as the family of an incarcerated man who died there last year. blame the unsanitary conditions at the jail for his death. cnn s isabel rizal is joining me right now, with more on this, so tell us about the family s demands the discovery made and how the jail is responding and the family fred has three big demands here . first, they are demanding a criminal investigation into the death of lashawn thompson. what happened here? how do we get to this point? secondly they are demanding for fulton county jail to be closed and a new one to be built in its place. now we really heard from the family and from the family attorney michael harper during a press conference. where they re blaming unsanitary conditions and complications from insect bites. for thompson s death back in september, the family attorney tells us that he had been in jail for just three months on a missed in custody
for misdemeanor assault charge and that he was in this psychiatric wing due to some mental health issues, and he had only been there for three months . they are blaming unsanitary conditions and then complications from insect bites for his death, so they re making three big demands here. first they want to criminal investigation into thompson s death. they want the fulton county jail too close and they want a new one to be built in its place. listen now to thompson s own brother. what he had to say. it was heartbreaking because nobody should be seen like that. nobody should see that. but the first thing that entered my mind was emmett till i thought about emmett to comparing those photos. it was heartbreaking, inexcusable death. it is an outrage, and we call on all the citizens of 14 county to demand better and to demand the new jail. so we did have hear back from the fulton county sheriff s office who say that they are prohibited by law from revealing too much about thompson s health
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