Sacramento CA: $1 million settlement reached in jail suicides

A $1 million settlement has been reached to pay the families of three inmates who committed suicide at the Sacramento County Main Jail, The Bee has learned.

Although a final court approval still is pending, the settlement covers inmate hangings that occurred in 2002 and 2003, when the jail suffered a rash of inmate suicides.
Family members claimed the deaths resulted from inadequate training and supervision of sheriff's deputies who staff the jail, flawed policies and procedures, and negligence, indifference and malpractice by jail personnel.

Full article, Sacramento Bee, November 28, 2007

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Given all the homicides committed here in Humboldt County California by the so-called "law enforcement", a group that can't even do a half-assed job of covering up a homicide with a suicide, one has to wonder if the person in the Humboldt County government office that writes the settlement/damages checks will develop carpal tunnel.

Of course, that assumes that the judiciary in this country will be restored, and that 42 U.S.C. 1983 will be enforced once again.

TLC