$2.8 Million Settlement in New York Pretrial Detainee’s Suicide

Loaded on Sept. 1, 2020 by David Reutter published in Verdict1 September, 2020, page 52

Filed under: Settlements, Suicides, Pretrial Detention and Detainees. Location: New York.

by David M. Reutter

New York’s Suffolk County Legislature agreed on September 26, 2019 to pay $2.8 million to settle a lawsuit concerning the events surrounding the suicide six years earlier of pretrial detainee Jack Franqui.

The morning of January 23, 2013, started innocently for Franqui. He called friend Simon …

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