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Sedgwick County commissioners voted in executive session today to offer an undisclosed amount to settle a lawsuit involving an inmate who was severely injured.
The county would not discuss the amount.
While being held on a probation violation and awaiting a mental evaluation, Edgar Richard Jr. suffered a beating by a jail deputy in February 2008 that fractured his jaw and left him in intensive care for weeks.
Richard died recently of stomach cancer.
A lawsuit filed in federal court last month against the county contends Richard —59 at the time he was injured — was vulnerable because of a mental illness and that his mental health declined while he was held in an isolation cell.
The lawsuit accuses Sedgwick County and the Sheriff’s Office of negligence and alleges that they knew of a “de facto policy” of excessive force at the jail.
In April 2009, Manuel Diaz, a former Sedgwick County detention deputy, pleaded no contest to aggravated battery for Richard’s injuries.
