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| Jail settles ex-inmate's case |
| By Cincinnati Enquirer |
| Published: 08/15/2005 |
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The Grant County, Ohio, jail this week paid out the biggest settlement to date to resolve one of 17 federal civil rights lawsuits filed against it. Former inmate Billy Jo Killion received $175,000 as part of an out-of-court settlement. Killion's suit claims he was savagely beaten while serving a 120-day sentence on a burglary conviction in 2003. Killion's public defender at the time pleaded with a judge to release Killion early so he could receive proper medical treatment for the injuries received in the beating. The motion for early release called the treatment of Killion's condition at the jail "disturbing." The settlement brings to $492,500 the amount that has been paid to settle a series of civil rights lawsuits that were filed in the last two years. The settlements are being paid by the county's insurer, the Kentucky Association of Counties. Six civil rights cases have been settled this summer for an average of $82,000. |
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