Lance Quick

Lance Quick arrived at the Bannock County Jail on December 8, 2018. Quick insisted that he needed to go to the hospital for treatment, and his parents and a close friend repeatedly contacted the jail, trying to bring him medications and other treatment, but they were turned away, according to a legal claim filed in his case. In the coming days, Quick “slipped further and further into psychosis” and stopped eating and drinking, according to legal documents. By December 14 — just six days into his incarceration — Quick was found dead in his cell. Ivy Medical, a health care provider that contracted with the jail, provided Quick with no medical treatment or intervention “until they began resuscitation efforts after his death,” according to the documents. “Even though Lance had certainly been irreversibly injured during withdrawal from antipsychotic medications in an empty cement cells, his death could still have been prevented even at this late stage by simply administering IV fluids,” according to the legal documents. “Lance died from completely preventable dehydration and starvation,” the legal claim alleges.

Quick’s family sued the Bannock County Sheriff’s Office for the actions that led to Quick’s death, and last year the county paid $2.1 million to settle the lawsuit. No criminal charges were brought. ... Salt Lake City civil rights attorney Karra Porter.

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