A parapetic inmate in Missouri was allegedly forced to go without a shower for five months, as bathrooms at prison housing are not wheelchair-accessible, according to a new federal lawsuit.
Anthony Tillman, 39 – who is accused of firing a gun at a vehicle with a child inside – was given a rip and a tub of water, but able to fully clean himself at the St. Louis City Justice Center Is not According to the suit Filed by advocacy groups on his behalf on Tuesday.
“I just want to be treated fairly, like how everyone else is treated,” Tillman said in a press release from fairness groups, ArchCity defenders.
Tillman has a bullet in his back during the 2017 shooting – and had already fallen and bitten himself, while Sue was trying to use a shower in prison in 2020, causing blood transfusions and hospitalizations Got admitted in
The prison’s lack of wheelchair-accessible shower facilities violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to the lawsuit, which demands that the prison provide access to the shower that accommodates Tillman’s disability.
Tillman says he was told by medical staff that they would not help him bathe because the prison is not a “long-term care facility” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Which cited the lawsuit.
Tillman has been confined to a second floor with prisoners in COVID-19 quarantine, since Oct. 5, the suit states.
He faces gun charges along with domestic assault charges and endangering the welfare of a child on February 29, 2020 for driving a gun from a vehicle carrying a child.
The city-run prison has three inmates since December, including one Violent outbreak in february, When 117 prisoners – raging about the COVID-19 protocol – opened fire and threw items from windows.
City spokesman Jacob Long declined to comment on the lawsuit on Wednesday.
With post wires
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