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30 from West Oaks Hospital, a care center for mentally ill patients, to the jail at 701 N.

San Jacinto, where he was placed among the general population.

Kelley was transferred to a medical unit at the 1200 Baker facility Jan.

12 after he caused a disturbance.

"The doctors did say that they transferred the papers with him," she said.

"But I looked at his eyes.

I could tell he was sick.

He was off his medication." McWilliams said Kelley's mental disorder was noted when he was booked, but he did not know whether Kelley had been receiving any medication at the jail prior to his move to Baker Street on Jan.

12, when he refused any treatment.

Medical historyAlthough Kelley was not able to communicate information about his medical history to the jail staff, McWilliams was not aware of any effort to contact the family for that information — and neither was Roberson.

"The only time they contacted us was when he passed," she said.

Dr.

Britta Ostermeyer, a forensic psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, said jails have a responsibility to ensure that all mental health inmates receive the proper treatment, including psychiatric care, and should recognize psychotic behavior like what Kelley exhibited in his final days "not as a sign of being bad, but as a sign of som...

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