Elias A. Diaz, 55, is upset after he spent eight months at the Vernon C. Bain Center in The Bronx, and they failed to put him in jail clothing because he was too big for the issued outfits. Instead, Diaz was stuck wearing the same t-shirt and sweats he was arrested in.
Diaz has now filed a $1 million lawsuit against the city after he claims he was humiliated by the improper jailhouse attire and will need “expensive” therapy to work through his grief. He says that officials didn’t see “fit to stock any clothing beyond the size of 6X,” and Diaz couldn’t fit into that size.
Diaz added that the city failed to provide him “equal care and protection.” As a result of the treatment Diaz claims not getting clothes that fit in jail has left him broken. He is asking for a $1 million restitution, of which $500,000 is supposed to go to psychiatric care he says he now needs.
