The FBI is looking into the death of an intellectually disabled inmate at a Virginia prison who's been identified as 'a possible victim of a crime,' the agency said in a document reviewed Monday by The Associated Press, months after a federal lawsuit...
, who was serving time for murder at the Marion Correctional Treatment Center, is the subject of a federal lawsuit alleging Givens was “sadistically tortured” and beaten before being found unresponsive at the southwest Virginia facility.
Hobbs, who said the email marked the first correspondence she’d had with the FBI about her brother’s death, said she welcomed the development.Dee Rybiski, an FBI spokeswoman in Richmond, declined to comment, noting the agency does not usually confirm or deny the existence of investigations. Hobbs said she was initially informed by a prison official that her brother, who had other underlying health conditions and had been recently ill, had died of natural causes. But around a week later, she received a call from a woman who said she’d heard through another inmate that Givens had been beaten.
An attorney for a fifth officer accused of negligence for failing to intervene did not respond to an email and a phone message seeking comment. According to the lawsuit, Givens had been incarcerated at Marion since shortly after he pleaded guilty to two felonies in connection with the fatal 2010 shooting of Misty Leann Garrett. Garrett, 22, had been employed as a home health nurse for Givens’ mother, according to local news accounts.
“More than one witness had observed ice formed on the water in toilets. We find these conditions to be inhumane and deplorable,” the report said.
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