Marion County to go to court over inmate’s lost eye

Marion County Courthouse (File/Salem Reporter)

After inmate Billy Gostevskyh asked for days for help for pain in his already-damaged right eye, the Marion County Jail’s doctor advised him to see an ophthalmologist as soon as possible.

The next day, jail employees sent him to a work-release transition center, where he would have to arrange and pay for his medical care. Gostevskyh ultimately lost his eye.

Whether county jailers acted with “deliberate indifference” toward Gostevskyh is…