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A Michigan Board Approves a $1 Million Settlement in a Case Over an Inmate’s Suicide

The Macomb County Board of Commissioners at a full meetingThursday agreed to pay $1 million mostly to the mother of a man who took his life in the county jail.

The board voted 11-1 to approve the settlement of a federal lawsuit filed by Carol Herriges for the 2017 hanging death of her son, Dieter Herriges-Love, 34, in a jail cell. Commissioner Mai Xiong voted no, and Commissioner Barbara Zinner was absent. U.S. District Judge David Lawson must give final approval for the payout to occur.

The county’s share will be about $600,000, and its insurance carrier will pay the rest. The jail’s medical provider, now called Wellpath, settled for $100,000 earlier this year.

During evidence gathering, the plaintiff discovered 21 suicides took place in the jail from 2000 to 2021. The settlement includes measures jail operators must implement, but a county official said the measures were previously implemented, and that part of the deal cannot be enforced.

Read the source article at macombdaily.com

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