Suit: South Carolina Woman Died in Jail After She Was "Deprived of Water" Brendan O'Connor · 02/24/16 08:15PM On July 22, a day after she was arrested at a hospital for failing to pay court fines, Joyce Curnell, 50, of Edisto Island, South Carolina, was found dead at the Charleston County jail “because she was deprived of water,” her family alleges.