Wrongful death suit filed over prison death

YOUNGSTOWN — A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in federal court by the wife of an inmate who hanged himself with an electric typewriter cord at the Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton.

The civil lawsuit filed Monday against the federal government alleges that Glen C. Hurst, 56, of Dayton reported to the prison on Oct. 2, 2007 with three prescribed medications and strangled himself to death a week later while going through withdrawal. The lawsuit contends that because the prison substituted an ineffective drug for Hurst’s Xanax, a psychotropic used to treat anxiety, he was forced to go “cold turkey” and suffered from the disorders for which the medication had been prescribed.

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