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$475,000 Settlement In California Suicide Suit
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2006, page 26
On December 20, 2005, the county of San Mateo, California, agreed to pay $475,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit involving a mentally ill woman who committed suicide in the county jail.
Angela Ramirez, 23, was imprisoned at the Women's Correctional Center after being sentenced to 120 days on …
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