Georgia’s prison system has agreed to pay $2.2 million to the parents of a transgender inmate who died by suicide in her cell in 2017 — after officials ignored her threats and waited several minutes before getting medical help, according to documents filed in a civil lawsuit.The settlement, first reported by CNN, was reached on Dec.
6 — the fourth anniversary of Jenna Mitchell’s death.It is one of the state’s prison system’s biggest wrongful death settlements ever and follows the Justice Department’s investigation into allegations of unconstitutional abuse in Georgia prisons.“The financial settlement is barely nudging any kind of justice,” Mitchell’s mother, Sheba Maree, told CNN.
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