ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Sandoval County has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from a jail inmate who killed herself after leaving her isolation cell.
KOB-TV reports (https://bit.ly/2m28h6s ) that attorney Jack Jacks filed a lawsuit after Raynbow Gignilliant killed herself weeks after she was released from solitary confinement at the Sandoval County Jail. Gignilliant had been in isolation for two months before her death in 2014.
Jacks also filed suit against the jail’s medical provider. That settlement amount has not been disclosed.
Jacks says Gignilliant was not allowed out of her cell for recreation or even to shower. He says her mental health deteriorated while in isolation to the point that she was hallucinating and throwing feces around the cell.
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Information from: KOB-TV, https://www.kob.com
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