Jail Medical Neglect Wrongful Death in Ector County, Texas — Kreasta Arnold, 46, Died of Treatable Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome and Myocarditis While Nine Doctors and Two Nurses Missed Textbook Symptoms and Her Family Was Isolated From Her Deteriorating Condition, Attorney911 Pursues the Sheriff’s Department, the Jail’s Medical Providers and the Contracted Health Firm Behind Custodial Medical Neglect Under the Eighth Amendment Deliberate-Indifference Standard and the Texas Wrongful-Death Act, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure Jail Medical Records, Sick-Call Logs and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Destroys Them, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Ector County Jail Medical Neglect: A Treatable Condition Became a Death Sentence If your family is reading this, someone you loved died inside a county jail in West Texas, and you have been told it was inevitable. It was not. The woman at the center of this lawsuit — a 46-year-old held at the Ector County Detention Center in Odessa — developed two conditions that medicine knows how to treat. One of them, Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome, is reversed by a vitamin injection if caught in time. The other, myocarditis, is managed with monitoring and medication. She had nine doctors and two nurses available to her, plus a sheriff’s office staffed with people trained to watch the people in their custody. According to the lawsuit filed by her family, all of them watched her deteriorate — hallucinating, losing her balance, growing confused and erratic — and none of them acted in time. She died in August 2022. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death cases in Texas, including deaths inside county jails where the government had a constitutional duty to provide medical care and failed. We are writing this page as a resource for any family…