Via Reason, a truly upsetting story out of Macomb County, Michigan, as reported by TV station WDIV: A 32-year-old man named David Stojcevski, jailed for failing to pay a $772 traffic fine, suffered 17 days of drug withdrawal and died in full view of a surveillance camera as guards made no apparent effort to help or treat him until he stopped moving after having laid naked on the floor of his cell for 48 hours.

Drug withdrawal was Stojcevski's official cause of death; WDIV says that before he was jailed, he was taking prescription Methadone, Xanax, and Klonopin to help treat drug addiction.

Macomb County authorities told the station that the lawsuit subsequently filed by Stojcevski's family has no merit and that they will not pay to settle it.

The offense for which Stojcevski was originally fined was "careless driving."