Field Observation Report

On 07/24/2015 at approximately while working in the booking area Deputy Caldwell was watching max 1 camera and said that it appeared that the two inmates appeared to be fighting. Sargent Daves, Sargent Coulter and I (Deputy Stearns) could hear people talking loudly behind delta gate and the voices began to get louder. Sgt. Daves began to walk up the hallway with Corporal Moravec towards delta gate calling for the door to be unlocked as they approached the door. Sgt. Coulter and I started towards the hallway to see what was going on behind delta gate in the hall. As we got to delta gate Deputy Caldwell pressed the button once again to unlock the door. This is when I saw Sgt. Daves, Cpl. Moravec, Deputies Robichaux, Delano and Sheldon in the
hallway with an inmate on the floor appearing as if they were restraining him/her. As I walked through delta gate Sgt. Daves was asking for someone to get gloves. I walked over to the inmate workers asking for gloves, he handed me large and extra-large in size gloves. As I approached them I immediately began to put gloves on my hands.
I handed Sgt. Daves a pair of gloves and set the boxes down on the floor for anyone else that needed them. Sgt. Daves was asking for someone to retrieve a mat because the inmate was lying face down and was continuing to bang his head on the concrete floor. I worked my way past them carefully to get a mat around the corner and brought it back placing it underneath his face. I went back around the corner to get the nurse from medical area and he was already walking through the door to come to check on the inmate. I got down onto my knees and assisted by holding his head and we began discussing rolling him over onto his back. We carefully rolled him over onto his back so that the nurse could assess his head injury and decide if he would need to go to the hospital for further treatment. I began to talk to inmate Chad Fields asking him why he was banging his head onto the floor. He responded saying that the voices were telling him to do it, his children had been killed by the sheriff and he wanted to go to be in heaven with his children. I asked him if he ever drank alcohol, he said “no”. I told him that he could relax his head in my hands, the nurse was back with some water to rinse his wound so that he could take a better look at
it. I continued to tell him that he needed to just relax that we were trying to help him. We saw he had a couple of small gashes on his head and the bridge of his nose as well as a large greenish purple bruise that had begun to develop on his forehead head. The nurse said that he would need to go to the hospital for his head wounds. EMS arrived at the jail and were given the patient assessment and he was picked up and placed on the stretcher and secured to be transported to the hospital.