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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

CENTRAL DIVISION 

WILLIAM MAYFIELD PLAINTIFF 

ADC #659228 

 

V. NO. 4:23-cv-00046-JM-ERE 

SHERIDAN DETENTION CENTER, et al. DEFENDANTS 

ORDER 

Plaintiff William Mayfield, an Arkansas Division of Correction inmate 

formerly incarcerated at the Sheridan Detention Center (“Detention Center”), filed 

this civil rights lawsuit pro se under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Doc. 1. 

On February 21, 2023, Mr. Mayfield filed a third amendment complaint (Doc. 

23), which the Court will treat as the operative complaint in this lawsuit. See Order, 

Doc. 11 (explaining to Mr. Mayfield that an amended complaint, if filed, would 

supersede or replace any earlier filed complaints).1

 In his third amended complaint, 

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 In his original complaint and amended complaints, Mr. Mayfield alleged that, on 

December 31, 2022, he suffered from his first seizure while incarcerated at the Detention Center. 

After Mr. Mayfield arrived back at the Detention Center after receiving medical attention, 

unidentified staff refused to provide him the prescribed seizure medication. As a result, Mr. 

Mayfield suffered another seizure. On January 12, 2023, he suffered a third seizure. Mr. Mayfield 

explains that, after he was taken to the hospital, a nurse told him that he had suffered the seizure 

because unidentified jail staff gave him the incorrect dosage of his prescription seizure medication. 

Rather than administering Keppra twice daily, jail staff only provided Mr. Mayfield Keppra once 

daily. In his original complaint, Mr. Mayfield named the Sheridan Detention Center, Jail 

Administrator Danny Clark, and the unidentified Sheriff of Grant County, Arkansas, as 

Defendants. 

On January 27, 2023, Mr. Mayfield filed a motion to amend his complaint. Doc. 9. In his 

motion, Mr. Mayfield: (1) sought to include claims that were not related to the medical deliberate 

indifference claims raised in both his original and amended complaint; (2) requested that the Grant 

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Mr. Mayfield clarifies his constitutional claims against Defendants Danny Clark, 

Ray Vance, and Dexter Payne. Doc. 23. Mr. Mayfield complains that these 

Defendants have failed to provide him: (1) adequate medical treatment after he has 

suffered numerous seizures; and (2) adequate seizure medication. 

For screening purposes, Mr. Mayfield has stated medical deliberate 

indifference claims against Defendants Clark, Vance, and Payne. Service is now 

proper for those claims.2

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED THAT: 

 1. The Clerk is instructed to prepare summonses for Defendants Danny 

Clark, Ray Vance, and Dexter Payne. 

2. The United States Marshal is directed to serve each Defendant with a 

summons and a copy of the complaint and the amended complaints (with any 

County Sheriff’s Department provide him copies of all medical requests and grievances that he 

has filed; (3) requested that MEMS and the Saline County Memorial Hospital provide him copies 

of his medical records; (4) raised complaints against the jail, the sheriff, the judge, and the parole 

officer regarding his initial arrest and his arrest for a parole violation (Doc. 9-1 at 6) and (5) again 

included facts relating to the seizures that he has suffered during his incarceration at the Detention 

Center. 

On February 3, 2021, the Court denied Mr. Mayfield’s motion, but provided him an 

opportunity to file a second amended complaint clarifying his constitutional claims. Doc. 11. 

On February 7, Mr. Mayfield filed a second amended complaint requesting to add Dexter 

Payne and the Saline County Sheriff Office as party Defendants. Doc. 20. 

2 Mr. Mayfield lists ten additional “motions” on the final pages of his complaint. Doc. 23 

at 9-10. Many of those motions are discovery requests. The Court has already cautioned Mr. 

Mayfield that such motions are not to be filed with the Court. Doc. 17. In addition, to the extent 

that Mr. Mayfield seeks preliminary injunctive relief, such request cannot be included with the 

complaint; it must be raised in a separate motion with an accompanying brief. See Local Rule 

7.2(e).

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attachments) (Docs. 1, 5, 20, 23), without requiring prepayment of fees and costs or 

security. Service for Defendants Clark and Vance should be attempted through the 

should be attempted through the Sheridan Detention Center, 304 Gatzke Drive, 

Sheridan, Arkansas 72150. Service for Defendant Payne should be attempted 

through the ADC Compliance Division, P.O. Box 20550, Pine Bluff, Arkansas 

71612. 

3. In his third amended complaint, Mr. Mayfield abandons his claims 

against the Sheridan Detention Center and the Saline County Sheriff’s Office. 

Accordingly, the Clerk is instructed to terminate those entities as party Defendants. 

Dated this 22nd day of February, 2023. 

 ____________________________________ 

 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 

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