The Maricopa County Sheriff’s office has agreed to pay $11.75 million to a former inmate at the county jail for deliberately failing to protect him and ignoring his medical needs
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona reached an $11.75 million settlement in a lawsuit involving a jail attack that seriously injured an inmate
The Board of Supervisors approved the settlement for the family of Brian Ortiz, who was 18 at the time and jailed for violating probation by not paying a fine.