{"id":571,"date":"2019-02-19T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/dc-civil\/questions-left-unanswered-for-family-of-man-killed-in-custody-in-mississippi-prison\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T07:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T13:46:53","slug":"questions-left-unanswered-for-family-of-man-killed-in-custody-in-mississippi-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/questions-left-unanswered-for-family-of-man-killed-in-custody-in-mississippi-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Killed in Custody in Mississippi Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ridgeland, Mississippi 2\/19\/2019<\/strong>- Attorneys Derek Sells of The Cochran Firm New York and Carlos Moore of The Cochran Firm Mississippi Delta have teamed up to seek justice for the family of a man who died in custody at the Madison County Jail in May of 2018.\u00a0 The victim, Harvey Hill, was allegedly beaten by guards while handcuffed, pepper-sprayed, and returned to his cell without proper medical treatment.\u00a0 The Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Department is declining comment, but the County Coroner has said that he doesn\u2019t know yet why Hill (36) died.\u00a0 The coroner stated that the Mississippi crime lab has a months-long backlog because of a shortage of pathologists to complete autopsies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/06\/us\/harvey-hill-mississippi-jail-death.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ridgeland, Mississippi 2\/19\/2019- Attorneys Derek Sells of The Cochran Firm New York and Carlos Moore of The Cochran Firm Mississippi Delta have teamed up to seek justice for the family of a man who died in custody at the Madison County Jail in May of 2018.\u00a0 The victim, Harvey Hill, was allegedly beaten by guards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"Attorneys Derek Sells of The Cochran Firm New York and Carlos Moore of The Cochran Firm Mississippi Delta to seek justice for the family of a man who died in Madison County Jail in 2018.\u00a0","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10821,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/10821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}