Opinion ID: 3063798
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Heading: Lawsuit Filed in 2006

Text: Plaintiff Wingster is the mother of Jonathon Sheldon Haynes, who was a prisoner at Autry State Prison. Wingster, as Haynes’s mother, filed this § 1983 action, alleging that excessive force by Autry State Prison guards caused Haynes’s aneurysm and death. Wingster claims that on October 14, 2004, Haynes was beaten by prison guards and admitted to Mitchell County Hospital. After a CT scan of Haynes’s brain showed no “midline shift, acute hemorrhage, or herniation,” he was discharged from Mitchell County Hospital and returned to Autry State Prison on October 15. On October 16, Haynes died at Phoebe Putney Medical Center (“Phoebe Putney Hospital”) as a result of a brain aneurysm that led to a massive stroke. Wingster claims the October 14 beating caused the aneurysm. 2