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$150,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner’s Suicide

Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County Correctional Facility (LCCF) has agreed to pay the family of a prisoner who committed suicide $150,000. The family contended LCCF was deliberatively indifferent to the risk that prisoner Luke Blumer, 19, posed to himself.

Blumer was known to be suicidal, showing that tendency by attempting to hang ...

 

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