The brother and sister of a mentally ill McFarland man filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Madison Friday alleging officials? inadequate care resulted in his suicide last year at a Portage prison. The suit charges that Jesse Miller, 21, was subjected to “wanton and unnecessary infliction of pain, suffering, embarrassment and death.” He hanged himself on June 23, 2009, at the Columbia Correctional Institution. Miller was serving time for crimes including phoning in a threat to police three years ago, disrupting classes at UW-Madison.
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