Jason Kelly negotiated a $400,000 settlement against Yuma County for allowing a jail inmate to commit suicide while in custody.
In July 2016, the Yuma County Board of Supervisors approved a $400,000 settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a former Tempe police officer who, in 2014, killed himself in his Yuma jail cell.
Kelly & Lyons partner Jason Kelly represented the decedent’s family in the suit.
Of the $400,000, Yuma County paid $300,000 and Correctional Healthcare Solutions paid the remaining $100,000.
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