Inmate who won jail lawsuit loses partial appeal
By The Associated Press
This article was published October 22, 2009 at 4:07 p.m.
A man who spent nearly three years in the Carroll County Jail while awaiting trial for firebombing his estranged wife’s house has lost an appeal of a lawsuit over how he was treated while locked up.
Michael Griffis won a portion of the suit, which found that it was unconstitutional for him to be strapped to a chair or put into isolation because he kept mutilating himself. Griffis is now serving a 30-year state prison sentence for attempted capital murder and arson.
The 49-year-old Griffis had sought to reverse a federal judge’s dismissal of his allegations of poor housing conditions and alleged insufficient medical care.
The Carroll County paid $7,200 for the part of the suit it lost.
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