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San Bernardino Jail Partially Released from Court Monitoring After Paying Another $150,000 in Settlements for Detainee Deaths
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2024, page 24
Filed under:
Electronic Monitoring,
Settlements,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death).
Location:
California.
On July 15, 2024, the federal court for the Central District of California removed medical care from continued monitoring of conditions at San Bernardino County jails under a 2018 consent decree. The move comes less than three months after the most recent death of a mentally ill detainee, whose family ...
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