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Clackamas jail care failures led to man’s death, suit claims

Suit’s allegations trace how Robert Hight III went from cooperatively requesting medical attention in jail to lying unresponsive on his cell’s floor due to a massive “brain bleed”
September 11, 2025
 
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A man experiencing excessively high blood pressure and a medical emergency was kept overnight at the Clackamas County jail rather than se