Opinion ID: 6343803
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Mr. Beauford’s 2014 Detention at MCDF

Text: On March 1, 2014, Mr. Beauford was arrested on charges of assault and unlawful sexual contact and booked into MCDF. He was housed alone in a single cell, located either in the booking area or in an administrative segregation area called Cedar Pod. Mesa County contracted with a private company—defendant CHC—to provide medical services to inmates at MCDF. Defendant Dr. Kurt Holmes oversaw CHC’s medical care services and defendant Michael LeFebre was the mental health supervisor at MCDF. CHC also employed defendant nurses Velda Havens, Audra Keenan, Jeanne Schans, and Renee Workman. Each of these defendants cared for Mr. Beauford in some capacity while he was detained at MCDF.3 During his detention, Mr. Beauford refused medications about fifty percent of the time. The defendant nurses encouraged him to take his medicine by offering his favorite snacks, such as Taco Bell burritos and Sprite. Dr. Holmes and Mr. LeFebre knew Mr. Beauford at times refused medication, including his anti-seizure medicine. But they took no action other than to advise the nurses they should continue to offer medication and to entice Mr. Beauford to take it. 3 Mr. Beauford had previously been detained at MCDF for about a month in late 2013, but that detention is not the subject of this appeal. 4 Appellate Case: 21-1010 Document: 010110688637 Date Filed: 05/25/2022 Page: 5 Mr. Beauford’s physical and mental condition deteriorated at MCDF. On March 20, Mr. LeFebre visited Mr. Beauford and marked his clinical status as “poor.” Aplt. App. vol. 6 at 1718-19. The nursing staff logs reported Mr. Beauford had developed a sore from spending so much time lying in bed in the same position. He sometimes refused to eat. Mr. Beauford struggled to get dressed, sit up, stand, or use the restroom on his own. He was sometimes found to be wet with urine. The jail guards frequently called for the nurses to change Mr. Beauford’s clothes and bring him a new adult diaper. The nurses often observed Mr. Beauford struggle—or outright refuse—to verbalize his wants and needs. During his approximately six-week detention, Mr. Beauford suffered documented seizures on March 1, 3, and 18 and April 15. See Aplt. App. vol. 10 at 2778.