The nurse on staff at the Duchesne County jail when a 21-year-old inmate died following severe dehydration and weight loss has been charged with negligent homicide.
State prosecutors charged Jana Clyde, 50, with one misdemeanor count after they said the licensed practical nurse failed to intervene and possibly save the life of Madison Jensen.
Jensen died Dec. 1, 2016, after four days in custody. Her parents called sheriff’s deputies to their Roosevelt home after she was suicidal and acting erratically. She told the arresting deputy she’d done heroin four days earlier and was arrested for internal possession of heroin and marijuana.