Suffolk County Settles 14 Year-Old Lawsuit Over Jail Conditions with $18M Settlement

Suffolk County has settled a 14-year-old class action lawsuit brought by inmates over alleged unsanitary and inhumane conditions at the  county jails in Riverhead and Yaphank.

The county agreed to pay $18 million into a settlement fund to pay damages to people incarcerated by the county from April 5, 2009 to the preliminary approval date of the settlement, excluding inmates housed exclusively at the facility built in Yaphank in 2013. 

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