Experts cite ‘systemic’ lapses in Philly jail care as jury finds city liable in diabetes death
March 05, 2026
Kensington Voice: “Video surveillance footage inside Philadelphia’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility on Nov. 5, 2023 shows Louis Jung Jr. lying on the floor in the doorway of his cell after requesting a nurse.
Jung, a 50-year-old man who had Type 1 diabetes, remained on the ground for about 13 minutes before two incarcerated people moved him back inside the cell. They wore gloves a correctional officer gave them, according to video and testimony.
One of them wiped the floor where Jung laid with a white towel under his foot. Then a lieutenant closed his cell door.
‘The system churns on,’ Abolitionist Law Center (ALC) attorney Nia Holston told a federal jury last week.
Holston and ALC represented Jung’s sons – Jacob Jung, Jim Jung, and Louis Jung III – in a civil lawsuit against the city, correctional staff, former prisons commissioner Blanche Carney, and the city’s contracted healthcare provider, YesCare.
After a four-day trial presided over by U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage, the jury found that Jung’s constitutional right to necessary medical care while incarcerated was violated, awarding his sons $1.67 million in damages. Jurors determined the city, Carney, and a Philadelphia Department of Prisons lieutenant liable, while finding another correctional officer not guilty. YesCare settled before trial for an undisclosed amount.”