Michael Papp
Michael Papp, 38, died in July 2024 at the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center in Ohio. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office lists his death as an overdose. A state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction review, reported by cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, says jail officials failed to adequately screen him, check on him and confiscate drugs before he died. Signal Cleveland reports that he was held alone in a psychiatric seclusion cell, that officers walked the pod about 50 times without finding him, and that a state compliance review in 2025 called the staff response unacceptable.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of an overdose (neglect alleged). The medical examiner lists the death as a fatal overdose, and an Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction review found jail officials failed to adequately screen, check on and confiscate drugs from him; a 2025 state compliance review called the staff response unacceptable, and staff did not closely monitor him in a psychiatric seclusion cell, walked the pod about 50 times without finding his body, and a nurse who saw it walked away.
Reported by: Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office (medical examiner or coroner); Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (outside investigators); cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer (reporters).