GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo.—The Garfield County sheriff says a lawsuit alleging that prisoners were mistreated in the county jail has been settled.
Sheriff Lou Vallario announced Monday that the case filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2006 was “voluntarily dismissed without prejudice” on April 25.
He told the Glenwood Post Independent that means the inmates who filed the lawsuit can’t refile the same complaint again. Vallario also said the county was ordered to pay $69,200 to cover the ACLU’s court costs.
The suit was filed in 2006. Since then, a mental health counselor has been hired to work in the jail. The jail was also renovated and two padded cells were added for violent inmates, replacing a “restraint chair” that was once used.
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Information from: Post Independent,
