According to a report from CBS affiliate WBTV, a Wyoming man passed away after serving 19 days in prison.
According to WBTV, Alvis Shrewsbury handed himself in on August 29 after being charged with a second DUI.
Shrewsbury made daily calls to his loved ones while he was incarcerated. His presence on video conversations, however, started to alarm his family members more and more as the days passed.
Shrewsbury’s unusual tendency to put his head down and avoid eye contact during video chats was noticed by family members.
“After we were talking to him on the 10th (of September), he’d already been beaten. His face was black,” his daughter Miranda Smith said, according to WBTV.
He sent a depressing message to his mother during a phone contact, according to her, according to WBTV.
“He said, ‘Mom if I don’t come home, I love you. I want you to know I love you,” mother Anna Shrewsbury said.
Shrewsbury told his family about the conditions in the jail over the course of his days there.
“He was telling us about his ribs being broken. It was hard to breathe. He hadn’t had a bowel movement in over a week and nothing was being done about it. He was calling the nurse’s station for help,” Smith said.
Then, over the weekend, a Wyoming County Sheriff’s deputy informed Shrewsbury’s mother that he had passed away after being taken to a nearby hospital by jail employees.
“I told my babies he would be fine,” Smith said.
“There’s a million people out there that I don’t know. But they belong to someone. My dad was someone,” Smith added, per WBTV.
