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California County Pays $400,000 For Mentally Ill Prisoner's Suicide

On July 13, 2001, Contra Costa County, California, agreed to pay $400,000
to settle a federal wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the suicide of a
mentally ill prisoner in the county jail.

In 1999, Kyle Kentera, a 32-year-old man with a history of mental illness,
was serving a two-month sentence ...

 

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