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Texas Jail Suicide Suit Settles For $300,000
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2006, page 33
In December 2005 Nueces County, Texas, agreed to pay $300,000 to settle with a woman whose husband committed suicide in the county's jail.
In 1995, while imprisoned in the Nueces County Jail in Corpus Christi, Texas, Jose Orlando Sanchez-Ortiz committed suicide. His wife, Maria Sanchez-Ortiz, subsequently filed suit in state ...
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