Maryland will pay $7 million to settle a pair of lawsuits seeking to hold the state responsible for the vicious 2014 attack that left a man disabled while he was awaiting trial on nonviolent charges in a corrupt and since-shuttered Baltimore jail, the state’s spending panel decided Wednesday.
Maryland’s spending board will consider next week whether to approve a $7 million settlement for a federal lawsuit claiming corruption within a since-closed Baltimore jail enabled the brutal beating of an inmate awaiting trial there in 2014.
Maryland’s top court will weigh if the damages limit in personal injury suits against the state is constitutional when the injured's costs far exceed the cap.