Sheriff's deputies laughed as their colleague took two cellphone videos of a 31-year-old inmate in a padded cell at the Clackamas County Jail as he moved uncontrollably and made unintelligible noises due to an apparent drug overdose.

"Look what I got for show-and-tell today,'' Deputy Ricky Paurus says on one video. He suggests they could put inmate Bryan Perry in a cage and wheel him into a school to impress on kids "don't do drugs,'' according to a new federal lawsuit. Another deputy calls the idea "fantastic.''

What the deputies and the jail's medical provider failed to do, the suit alleges, is ensure Perry got appropriate medical treatment, resulting in his death by cardiac arrest early Nov. 4, 2016, about five hours after he was booked into jail.

The suit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Portland, alleges the county deputies and medical staff from Corizon Health Inc., the jail's medical contractor, violated Perry's civil rights when they failed to properly screen Perry, get him prompt medical attention, adequately check on him or send him to a hospital.

It also contends Corizon Health has displayed a pattern of misconduct at other jails across the country, with similar wrongful death lawsuits filed against the company since 2006 elsewhere in Oregon, Michigan, Missouri, California, Florida and Pennsylvania.

Corizon Health's nurses and doctors failed to uphold standards set by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which says it's "essential'' that an inmate suffering a severe overdose immediately be transferred to a licensed, acute care facility, attorney John T. Devlin wrote in the suit.

Perry's cause of death was methamphetamine toxicity, according to the state medical examiner's office.

The suit seeks unspecified compensatory damages, plus punitive damages against the defendants, alleging they "callously disregarded'' Perry's physical safety and were grossly negligent and reckless.

Bryan Perry served in the U.S. Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was honorably discharged and awarded a Purple Heart, according to his lawyer.

Clackamas County counsel Stephen Madkour on Wednesday declined comment on the lawsuit. Martha Harbin, spokeswoman for the Tennessee-based Corizon Health also declined comment.

Perry was arrested on an outstanding warrant for a probation violation about 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 3, 2016, at Eastport Plaza and taken to the jail. Detectives who took Perry to jail suspected he was high on methamphetamine, according to the suit.

When he was booked in at 7:15 p.m., Perry wasn't able to control his movements, was described as "twitching'' and was placed in a padded cell so he wouldn't harm himself. Perry continued to flail for the next four hours, the suit says.

A Corizon nurse accompanied by four deputies, who had to hold Perry down, tried to get Perry's blood pressure reading around 7:55 p.m. The nurse wrote in a medical file that Perry was "out of control, flopping all over,'' out of breath and breathing rapidly in his high-security cell, and had reported taking methamphetamine, heroin and bath salts. The same nurse returned to his cell at 9:17 p.m. for three minutes as deputies gave Perry some water.

One deputy described Perry as acting like he had bugs under his skin, uncontrollably moving his hands all over his body.

A second nurse didn't return to Perry's cell until 11:16 p.m. and found Perry unresponsive and couldn't get his blood pressure, although the nurses and deputies wrote conflicting reports on Perry's responsiveness, the suit says. An ambulance was called at 11:23 p.m., left the jail with Perry at 11:56 p.m. and he was pronounced dead at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center at 12:16 a.m.

According to the suit, another inmate who had entered the jail with Perry, Bridgette Mountseir, suddenly began "flopping around and acting just like Perry'' during the evening. Deputies moved her to an individual cell. She fell and hit her head and was then placed in a restraint chair outside the jail's medical office before she was taken to the hospital at 9:34 p.m. and survived, according to the suit.

No one has been disciplined in the case, Devlin wrote in the suit, including Deputy Matrona Shadrin who took the two cellphone videos or the other deputies, Paurus, Lacey Sandquist and a third unidentified deputy who were heard commenting on the video as Shadrin recorded.

-- Maxine Bernstein

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