Dan Gelin received little medical attention after an inmate stabbed him repeatedly at the Essex County Correctional Facility in December, his family’s attorney said. The following day, authorities found him unresponsive, breathless and pulseless in a jail cell surrounded by blood-stained towels. An hour later, he was pronounced dead. The circumstances surrounding his death are now the subject of a civil rights lawsuit filed last week in the state Superior Court, charging that the jail and its officers failed to protect the 27-year-old from a violent inmate who allegedly attacked him multiple t…
