The Del Norte County Board of Supervisors were confronted at Tuesday’s board meeting with photographs depicting filthy conditions inside a cell that had been occupied by an inmate who has been described as mentally ill.During the public comments portion of the board meeting, local civic activist Linda Sutter display a poster-sized collage of three photos. The inmate “was forced to lay in a squalor of feces, piss, and garbage, with a ripped up mattress for a period of 10 to 15 days,” Sutter said.Correctional officers “failed their duty to act, the sergeants turned a blind eye, and the lieutenants who are running the Sheriff’s Office just didn’t care, “Sutter said.#placement_573654_0_i{width:100%;max-width:550px;margin:0 auto;}var rnd = window.rnd || Math.floor(Math.random()*10e6);var pid573654 = window.pid573654 || rnd;var plc573654 = window.plc573654 || 0;var abkw = window.abkw || '';var absrc = 'https://ads.empowerlocal.co/adserve/;ID=181918;size=0x0;setID=573654;type=js;sw='+screen.width+';sh='+screen.height+';spr='+window.devicePixelRatio+';kw='+abkw+';pid='+pid573654+';place='+(plc573654++)+';rnd='+rnd+';click=CLICK_MACRO_PLACEHOLDER';var _absrc = absrc.split("type=js"); absrc = _absrc[0] + 'type=js;referrer=' + encodeURIComponent(document.location.href) + _absrc[1];document.write('');“These pictures are of one cell. We have no idea what the rest of them look like. We have no idea whether inmates are given cleansers to clean their cells.” She added.Sutter laid the blame directly on the board members. When members of the public called their respective supervisors, she said, “Everyone of you hid the matter from the public and swept it under the rug.” She reminded the supervisors that they each took an oath to uphold the laws. “You have failed that oath.”Operations Lieutenant Daniel Schneck, who has been appointed to serve as acting Sheriff until the June primary election, said the jail cell conditions depicted in the photographs are “obviously foul and disgusting.” But, he said the facts have been “taken out of context.”Lt. Schneck said that when the inmate was found in the squalor, “the inmate was removed from the cell and moved to a clean cell.” The filthy cell was then “decontaminated and scrubbed.”Schneck denied that the inmate was in that particular cell “three weeks at a time.” However, he was “housed with us for committing a crime and waiting to go to a state hospital for the restoration of competency.” The photos show perhaps more than half a dozen meal trays and what appears to be numerous milk cartons.The inmate had been arrested last October by the Crescent City Police Department, and has been held in local custody ever since. He had been arrested for making criminal threats, a violation of Penal Code section 422.A decision was made to “wait until more staffing came on” due to the inmate’s record of attempting violent assaults on custodial staff. “He was afforded two hours time out each day.” Schneck said. “He was not housed with anyone else.”Civil activist Linda Sutter isn’t satisfied. “The state needs to take over the jail.” googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('ad-1515727'); });