Becoming an expert birdwatcher may help protect the brain from aging<\/a><\/p>\nThe lawsuit alleged that the jail failed to monitor Jung’s blood glucose levels, administer insulin and send him to the hospital when his blood glucose levels became dangerously high.\u00a0Late Monday, a jury awarded Jung’s family more than $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $170,000 in punitive damages for violations of Jung’s constitutional right to necessary medical care, Jung’s lawyers said.<\/p>\n
“For the Jung family, yesterday’s verdict was about accountability, about ensuring that Mr. Jung’s memory and the injustice that happened to him is remembered,” Rupalee Rashatwar, a staff attorney at the Abolitionist Law Center, a public interest law firm in Philadelphia that represented the family, said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A city spokesperson said in an email that officials were reviewing the verdict and had no additional comments at this time.<\/p>\n
In 2020, a class-action lawsuit was brought against the city and the prisons department by 10 people who alleged inhumane conditions and other civil rights violations while incarcerated.<\/p>\n
As part of a 2022 agreement prompted by that lawsuit, a federal monitor was appointed to oversee the prisons department and address a job vacancy rate among corrections officers of more than 40%, among other specific improvements.\n<\/p>\n
\nA judge found the city in contempt <\/a>of court in 2024 for violating the 2022 agreement and ordered it to prioritize filling staff vacancies and pay $25 million into a fund to be used for improvements at the jails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a man who died in a Philadelphia jail of complications from diabetes has been awarded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46,36444,744,60081,14671,69,71,70,903],"class_list":{"0":"post-129145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-diabetes","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-jails","12":"tag-lawsuits","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","15":"tag-philadelphia-news","16":"tag-prisons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}