The family of Madelyn E. Linsenmeir, 30, who died in the custody of law enforcement in Western Massachusetts in 2019, drew national attention when her family wrote of her opioid addiction in her obituary, encouraging the public to treat addiction as a disease rather than “a choice or a weakness.”
A Massachusetts city will pay a $900,000 settlement to the family of a Vermont woman who died in police custody to settle a lawsuit over authorities’ failure to provide adequate medical care.
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