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$750,000 Settlement After Opioid Withdrawal Death in Kentucky Jail

by David M. Reutter

Opioid addiction has reached epidemic proportions. Handling withdrawal from those drugs is something that many jails are unprepared to handle. Kentucky’s Mason County Detention Center (MCDC) was so unprepared that it allowed Jenny Fulton, 27, to deteriorate and die over a four day period. In April ...

 

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