Corley was booked into Denton County Jail on February 15, records show, facing drug and firearm charges.
When he was brought into custody, Greg Corley asked not to be handcuffed with his hands behind his back, his father Jeff Corley said in an interview with 四虎影院.
That's because Greg had a stent in his right arm, which was placed after a motorcycle accident in 2019 that made that arm immobile, Jeff said. Greg worried that being cuffed behind his back could crush the stent, but he was cuffed behind his back anyway, crushing the stent and cutting off blood flow, Jeff said.
Greg and his family allege that jail medical staff delayed his treatment for months, leading to blood clots and gangrene in Greg鈥檚 injured right arm, which now needs to be amputated.
A photo from shows Greg holding up his arm to the camera on a jail visitation screen, his fingers swollen and purple, his fingernails bluish-white.
"I don't think it matters what the inmate is in jail for,鈥� Jeff said. 鈥淭hey (inmates) all deserve the same health care and deserve good health care, because they can鈥檛 take care of themselves when they鈥檙e in jail.鈥�
Amputation wasn鈥檛 on the table before Greg went to jail, Jeff said. In fact, his son had regained some of the movement in that arm.
"You can't put a dollar value on losing your arm and losing 35 years of work,鈥� he said.
四虎影院 requested body and dashboard camera footage of Greg鈥檚 arrest, but the Denton County Sheriff鈥檚 Office Records Department replied that those records do not exist, because Greg Corley was brought in by a bounty hunter.
鈥淲e still would not have body cam and/or dash cam because he was not arrested by one of our deputies,鈥� Vianey Robles with the records department wrote in an email.
四虎影院 called and emailed the Denton County Sheriff鈥檚 Office to request an interview about Greg鈥檚 case.
Greg is no longer in Denton County Jail. Denton County released Greg on Tuesday on a , but records show he is now in custody in Collin County, where he faces other charges.
About 20 protesters still gathered at the Denton County Jail on Wednesday night to demand that the Denton County Sheriff鈥檚 Office cover Corley鈥檚 medical expenses. Under the jail鈥檚 barbed wire walls, people held up a sign that read, 鈥淓ND MEDICAL NEGLECT IN DENTON CO. JAIL.鈥�
鈥淗is worsened condition could have been prevented, and the county should pay the cost for their negligence,鈥� said Tamera Hutcherson, the North Texas community organizer with .
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