TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Junction City man has filed a $2 million lawsuit against the Shawnee County Jail claiming it failed to provide proper medical attention for a broken bone in his foot and subsequent head injury.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Jason Dixon, 34, filed the lawsuit in a handwritten petition May 13.
Dixon is being held on a federal hold order and pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine.
Dixon says he broke the bone while playing basketball in plastic flip-flops after being stepped on by another inmate, then later hit his head when he fell trying to get to his cell’s emergency button.
Shawnee County counselor Rich Eckert says his office hasn’t been served with the lawsuit.
The Kansas Department of Corrections indicates Dixon was sentenced in Geary County in October of 2005 for aggravated battery and in 2002 for criminal use of a weapon and assault. He was discharged in November of 2010.
