Jury finds former Garvin County detention deputy guilty of civil rights violations in death of detainee

A former Garvin County Jail detention deputy has been convicted by a federal jury on charges she was deliberately indifferent to the serious medical needs of pretrial detainee Kayla Turley, while Turley was housed in the Garvin County Jail in August of 2023, resulting in bodily injury to Turley and ultimately her death.

Paula Kelley was convicted of one count of deprivation of rights under color of…