County in Minnesota, Former Jail Medical Provider to Pay $2.6 Million to Family of Deceased Inmate

Nearly five years after Hardel Sherrell died in custody at Beltrami County Jail, we now know the details of a multi-million settlement his family will receive from the county and the medical provider that served the jail.

Beltrami County and MEnD Correctional Care will pay $2.6 million to the family of Sherrell after the 27-year-old died at the jail in 2018.

Sherrell arrived at the Bemidji jail in August 2018 in what appeared to be good health and high spirits. But his health quickly deteriorated, and he died less than a week after he arrived. Ramsey Medical Examiner ruled he died of pneumonia but his mother, Del Shea Perry, had her legal team run their own tests which determined Sherrell was suffering from Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

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