Denver settlement: Family of suffocated inmate getting $4.6M
Source: Associated Press
Kathleen Foody, Associated Press
Updated 4:15 pm, Wednesday, November 1, 2017
DENVER (AP) — The family of a man who suffocated in jail as Colorado sheriff's deputies restrained him during a psychotic episode has reached a $4.6 million settlement that also requires changes at Denver's jails, attorneys said Wednesday.
Michael Marshall, 50, died two years ago after he was restrained in a prone position for several minutes by deputies because he became aggressive with another inmate and ignored commands. He choked on his own vomit, lost consciousness and died later at a hospital.
Marshall was homeless when he was arrested Nov. 7, 2015 on suspicion of trespassing and disturbing the peace and jailed, his relatives have said. He was restrained at the jail on Nov. 11 and died nine days later.
Attorneys for Marshall's family and the city of Denver said the settlement also requires the sheriff's department to add two mental health provider positions at its jail facilities and provide mental health coverage 24 hours a day, conduct training on mental illness for all deputies and change other procedures.
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