Nov 14, 2008 10:03 am US/Mountain
Denver To Pay $3 Million In Jail Inmate Death
DENVER (AP) ―
The city of Denver has agreed to pay $3 million in the death of a 24-year-old woman who bled to death in jail after being injured in a car accident.
Emily Rae Rice died Feb. 19, 2006, after being jailed 20 hours with a lacerated spleen and liver as guards ignored her cries for help. Rice had been jailed on suspicion of DUI.
A City Council agenda item for Monday specifies payments of $950,000 each to Rice's mother, Sue Garber, and father, Roy Rice; $100,000 to Rice's estate; and $1 million to the law firm of Killmer, Lane & Newman LLP, which handled a federal lawsuit.
"If approved, we hope this agreement will allow the Rice family and all others touched by this tragedy to move forward with the process of healing," City Attorney David Fine said in a statement.
Denver Health Medical Center, which examined Rice before her incarceration, previously settled with the family. The hospital added procedures for discharging patients from its emergency department and improved communication with the jail.
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