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| NYC settles lawsuit over Rikers Island inmate Bradley Ballard’s death |
| By amny.com |
| Published: 09/28/2016 |
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The city on Tuesday agreed to pay $5.75 million to the mother of a mentally ill black man who died in 2013 after he was found in his cell naked and covered in feces at Rikers Island, court records show. Bradley Ballard, 39, was locked in his cell at the problem-plagued jail complex and deprived of running water and sufficient insulin for his diabetes for six days leading up to his death on Sept. 11, 2013. A report issued by the state's Commission of Correction said his condition was also complicated by sepsis, which he developed from mutilating his genitals and not receiving necessary medical care, and listed the death as a homicide. Read More. |
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