A pistillate alleges North Las Vegas jailhouse unit denied her anti-seizure medicine and injured her portion she was detained for much than 2 months past year.
The claims travel from a suit filed Monday by Merlyn Morfin successful District Court against the metropolis of North Las Vegas, the North Las Vegas Police Department and the North Las Vegas Community Correctional Center, the metropolis jail.
Morfin was arrested and detained connected a home artillery complaint astatine the jailhouse connected April 27, 2025, according to the lawsuit. The complaint was aboriginal dismissed, the filing said.
But for 74 days portion she was successful custody, the ailment alleges, Morfin was denied entree to her prescribed anti-seizure medicine and intelligence wellness services and deprived of toilet insubstantial and an due magnitude of feminine hygiene products. Correctional officers besides injured Morfin portion she was detained, the suit claims.
Morfin, 44 astatine the clip of her detention, was diagnosed with epilepsy erstwhile she was 12, according to the lawsuit. She is besides diagnosed with psychotic upset and schizophrenia, the filing states. Officers astatine the country of her apprehension knew of her epilepsy, and corrections officers knew of her intelligence wellness conditions, the ailment alleges.
Asked for remark from the metropolis and the jail, a spokesperson for North Las Vegas said successful an email that the metropolis is incapable to remark connected pending litigation. The North Las Vegas Police Department did not respond to a petition for comment.
‘Are you dormant yet?’
Without her anti-seizure medication, the suit alleges, Morfin convulsed and experienced tummy pain, some symptoms of her epileptic condition.
“Despite her evident aesculapian distress and her documented past of epilepsy, nary qualified aesculapian unit evaluated her condition,” the suit states. “Ms. Morfin repeatedly requested aesculapian attraction for her epilepsy and related symptoms. Her requests were ignored by correctional unit and aesculapian unit astatine NLVCCC.”
When Morfin tried to get aesculapian attraction for her epilepsy and intelligence health, the filing alleges, correctional officers “used excessive and unreasonable force” against her.
Morfin sustained important bruising, a chopped lip, bumps connected her caput and breached teeth from the altercation, the suit says, but her injuries were ne'er inspected oregon treated by jailhouse personnel.
At 1 point, the filing alleges, a correctional serviceman stated to Morfin: “Are you dormant yet?” The ailment says the enactment showed the jailhouse staff’s “callous and deliberately indifferent attitude” toward Morfin’s wellness and well-being.
On July 10, 2025, Morfin was transferred to Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, adjacent South Jones and West Oakey boulevards, according to the lawsuit. There, Morfin reported that she “feels traumatized” by what happened portion she was jailed, the filing states.
The suit seeks compensatory, wide and peculiar damages “in an magnitude to beryllium proven astatine trial.”
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