Ex-Inmate Reaches a $2.5 Million Settlement With a Colorado County Over Jail Treatment

In a case that highlighted jail treatment of the mentally ill, a former inmate has now settled a federal lawsuit for more than $2.5 million with Boulder County.

Ryan Partridge’s story was the subject of a CBS News Colorado report in 2017.

He had been homeless and was arrested after an altercation with another homeless person.

Partridge had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and believed the CIA and told him to pull out his eyeballs. He is now permanently blind.

Read the source article at CBS News