‘Feels like needles and knifes’: Inmate slowly died from perforated ulcer while staff ignored his cries and blamed drug withdrawal, lawsuit says

Surveillance video showed Melvin Bush making his way to a common area in a Minnesota jail, but he was in too much pain to walk unassisted, nearly fell, and could not sit upright before he died in custody (Storms Dworak).

Melvin Bush (Storms Dworak law firm).

The daughter of a Minnesota man who died in custody from a perforated ulcer has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, alleging jailers and a nurse contractor blamed drug withdrawals and ignored the man’s pleas for help.

Melvin Tyrone Bush, 59, was a detainee at the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center in Rochester, Minnesota. He died on March 5, 2023, from acute complications of a perforated duodenal ulcer — a serious medical condition that required prompt and appropriate care, according to the lawsuit filed by his daughter, Areryana Bush.

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