• John Basco was found unresponsive around 3:50 a.m. Sunday by a detention officer.
• He was one of four inmates who filed a federal civil rights lawsuit last year.
• The inmates alleged jail staff tortured detainees, playing the song “Baby Shark” for hours.

An Oklahoma inmate found dead in his cell after claiming in a lawsuit. That jail staff tortured detainees by pushing them into stress positions while playing the song “Baby Shark” for hours. Around 3:50 a.m., John Basco was discovered unresponsive. Oklahoma County Jail Center authorities said in a news release that a detention officer performing site checks visited the facility on Sunday.

Medical staff were summoned and attempted to save Basco’s life, but he died shortly after 4 a.m. According to the announcement, his family has been alerted.

The cause of death was not disclosed, and detention centre officials did not respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

Basco was one of four inmates who filed a federal civil rights lawsuit last year alleging that jail officers used excessive force and torture-like punishment practises.

Oklahoma County Sheriff Tommie Johnson III, the board of county commissioners, the jail trust, and two former jail officers were named as defendants.

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According to the claim, in late 2019, Basco and inmate Daniel Hedrick were both forced to stand in a stress posture while listening to “Baby Shark.”

According to the claim, another inmate, Joseph Mitchell, was taken from his cell in November 2019 and placed in a chamber where he was forced into a “standing stress posture” for three to four hours while shackled behind his back.

According to the lawsuit, officers then played “Baby Shark” on repeat so loudly that it “reverberated along the hallways.”

According to the court complaint, inmate Ja’Lee Foreman Jr. was not made to listen to the song, but was placed in a stress position and afterwards kneed in the back and pushed into a wall by one officer and spat on by another.

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