A California County to Award an Unprecedented $7 Million to Family of Oakland Man Left for Dead in Jail Cell

Alameda County has agreed to pay an unprecedented $7 million to the children of an Oakland man left languishing in his jail cell for three to four days before he was finally discovered dead, KTVU has learned.

Maurice Monk’s daughter, Nia’Amore Monk, and son, Kyse Monk, will share the amount, according to settlement records filed last week in U.S. District Court in Oakland.

Monk’s sister, Elvira Monk, acknowledged that was a lot of money.

“Yeah it is,” she said Thursday. “But someone’s dead behind it.”

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