12/17/2022
An updated complaint was filed in US District Court two weeks ago alleging Rutledge, 44, died of hyperthermia in December 2020. But how could someone die of hyperthermia when their complaints are about extreme heat?
His lawyers argued the officials at William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility disregarded the issue with the heating system in the mental health section. Per the suit, other men had died from extreme heat due to the broken heater, causing them to “bake to death” as they claimed occurred in the case of Rutledge.
One corrections investigator, Clark Hopper, recalled the unbearable temperature in the room when he once went to speak to Rutledge.
“When he dropped his (meal door), it was, it was just, pardon the language, but it was hotter than three hells when it dropped,” he said, per the report.
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