Oklahoma county settles inmate death suit for $12.5 million
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October 23, 2019
ENID, Okla. (AP) — Officials in northern Oklahoma have agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of an inmate in a restraint chair at the county jail.
According to court records, the Garfield County Board of Commissioners took the action over the June 8, 2016, death of 58-year-old inmate Anthony Huff.
Huff was arrested for public intoxication. Jail staff placed him in the restraint chair , where he was later found unresponsive and pronounced dead.
The lawsuit accused officials of negligence and of violating Huff's constitutional rights. In a statement Monday, the board say...
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