Utah’s Salt Lake County has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family of a 19-year-old Magna man who starved to death while in the county jail earlier this year. The dollar amount and other terms of the …
A Roane County man claims in a lawsuit he contracted a drug-resistant staph infection after jail overcrowding caused his medical needs to be ignored. Roy Dennis of Spencer filed the lawsuit recently against the state Regional Jail Authority. It alleges …
Maricopa County is set to pay out $1 million to the family of a man who died while in custody of the Sheriff’s Office. The Arizona Republic reports Juan Farias Mendoza died in 2008 after a physical exchange with detention …
Allegheny County, Pa., settled two lawsuits by former jail inmates who allege that they were mistreated. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the county settled one case for $30,000 and another for $23,000, but didn’t admit liability in either case. The …
The father of a 36-year-old New Mexico man who died in the federal prison in Pekin says he wasn’t surprised the Department of Justice denied a wrongful death and personal injury claim filed by the family. Juan Montoya of Albuquerque, …