D.C. Jail Stay Ends in Death For Quadriplegic Md. Man
/Care Provided by Hospital, Corrections Dept. in Question
Jonathan Magbie, a 27-year-old Mitchellville man, was sent to jail in
the District last week for 10 days for marijuana possession. He never
made it home. Paralyzed as a child and unable to even breathe on his
own, Magbie died last Friday after being shuttled between the D.C. jail
complex and Greater Southeast Community Hospital. At the center of the
many questions surrounding his death is whether D.C. Superior Court and
the D.C. Department of Corrections did enough to ensure adequate care
for the quadriplegic inmate. An investigation is underway, but that is
little solace to his family, which marched on the courthouse this week
with signs accusing the judge of killing Magbie. "I'm not saying that
he shouldn't have been punished, because he did smoke the marijuana,"
his mother, Mary Scott, said yesterday, a day after burying her son. "I
just don't think it should have cost him his life." [more 
