EAST ST. LOUIS -- Several medical personnel at the Greenville Federal Correctional Institution are being sued for allegedly failing to monitor and properly treat an inmate who later died from cardiac arrest.
Marissla Mackey, as independent administrator for the estate of Tige Cottrell Mackey, deceased, filed a federal lawsuit on Nov. 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against Faisal Ahmed, M.D.; Kimberly Scneider, PA-C; Paul Kelly, PN; Betty Ulmer, RN; Ashley Knebel, RN; and unknown prison officials at the Greenville Federal Correctional Institution.
The lawsuit alleges deliberate indifference to a serious medical condition, negligence, deliberate indifference to a serious medical need, wrongful death and a survival claim.
According to the lawsuit, 47-year-old Tige Mackey was an inmate at the medium-security Greenville Federal Correctional Institution when he died on May 28, 2019, due to developing a cardiac arrhythmia. The suit states he suffered cardiac arrest after being transferred to the HSHS Holy Cross Family Hospital Intensive Care Unit.
Prior to Mackey's death, he allegedly suffered preexisting conditions of degenerative disc disease, hypertension, obesity and other conditions. Beginning on Dec. 18, 2018, he allegedly sought medical attention from staff at the prison multiple times for complaints of back pain, bilateral kidney pain, vomiting, diarrhea and an altered mental state. The suit states that injections and oral steroids were administered, but the decedent was not monitored for adverse reactions to the medication or steroid-induced hyperglycemia and diabetes mellitus.
The plaintiffs alleges Greenville FCI medical staff failed to properly diagnose Mackey's condition, failed to properly assess, treat and monitor the condition, failed to conduct appropriate and necessary lab testing, failed to assess, diagnose, treat or monitor for hyperglycemia and Diabetes Mellitus Type II, failed to administer basic checks, failed to monitor potential side effects and failed to prevent the development of the decedent's conditions.
Marissla Mackey seeks a judgment of $5,000,000 plus cost of suit. Mackey is represented by Devlin Joseph Schoop of Chicago.
District Court for the Southern District of Illinois case number 3:21-cv-01490-NJR