May 27, 2022
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The family of a Black man who yelled that he couldn’t breathe before he died in a North Carolina jail in 2019 has reached a $3 million settlement in its wrongful-death lawsuit, according to court documents …
April 7, 2014
The family of a man who died last year in a Phoenix, Ariz., jail has filed a $3.25 million claim. The Arizona Republic reports the attorney for Felix Martinez Torres’ family expects the case to become a lawsuit. The family …
February 20, 2013
County officials in western Nebraska are seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit over the death of a 47-year-old woman in the Box Butte County jail. Lori Heiting, of Hay Springs, died Dec. 4, 2010, after she was found unresponsive in …