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| Inmate sues officers over alleged abuse |
| By News-Leader |
| Published: 01/24/2005 |
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A Richland man claims he was abused three years ago by a Laclede County, Missouri deputy who allegedly handcuffed him naked to a jail cell bed during a drug search. Phillip L. Carter, 45, sued Sheriff Richard Wrinkle and two of his officers last week for assaults he said he suffered on two separate occasions in jail. A petition filed in federal court by Carter's Springfield attorney James Arneson cited unlawful detention, excessive force, negligence, loss of consortium and civil-rights violation. Wrinkle denied Wednesday that he maintained jail policies and procedures with "deliberate indifference" to prisoners' rights as the lawsuit claimed. The sheriff said he had not seen the lawsuit. According to the petition, Carter and another man were arrested and placed in the Laclede County Jail in Lebanon on Aug. 7, 2001, in connection with an alleged Chevrolet truck theft. The plaintiff alleges he was assaulted in the jail four days later by the other suspect, whom Carter had implicated in the crime. He had to be transported to St. John's Hospital for treatment after the beating, the petition said. The defendants, including the officer who put the two men in the same area, "failed to foresee the probable consequences" of placing Carter in the same cell pod with the individual he implicated, the petition alleged. Wrinkle admitted Carter was assaulted by another inmate. But he noted the two men were not placed in the jail at the same time, and were both in the facility for days prior to the assault. Carter was arrested and taken to the Laclede County Jail again on Dec. 22, 2001, on charges of driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident, the petition said. A deputy reportedly became angry with Carter on Feb. 3, 2002, when he requested medication for pain he suffered from the August assault, and ordered Carter to remove his jail jumpsuit so he could search him and the cell for medication and other drugs, the petition alleged. The petition alleges the deputy "handcuffed Phillip L. Carter to the bed and left him there for 20 minutes without any clothes on ... then returned and brought with him a woman officer with medication ... while Phillip L. Carter was naked." When Carter pounded on the wall and asked to be released from the handcuffs, the deputy repeatedly struck the detainee in the face with his hand and kicked him in the stomach, the petition alleges. Arneson's lawsuit contended Carter suffered multiple injuries to his neck, back and spine; severe trauma to his face requiring surgical reconstruction of his jaw; and post traumatic stress syndrome. |
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