
Family gets $2.2 million settlement for death of Georgia inmate, calls for criminal investigation
CNN
Georgia's troubled prison system has agreed to pay $2.2 million to the family of a transgender woman, whose threats of suicide were ignored and who was left hanging in her cell for several minutes before getting medical help, according to surveillance video and sworn statements filed as part of a civil lawsuit.
The settlement is one of the biggest wrongful death settlements in the history of Georgia's prison system and comes as the Justice Department has launched a sweeping civil rights investigation into allegations of unconstitutional abuses of prisoners in Georgia prisons.
Jenna Mitchell would have celebrated her 29th birthday last month. Instead, four years after she died in the hospital after hanging herself with bedsheets while in solitary confinement, Mitchell's family is still mourning her death.

Painting of iconic Trump raised-fist scene from Butler rally now hangs in Grand Foyer of White House
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