By: Glynis Kazanjian | wjla | March 11th, 2020 ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) — Plaintiffs representing Darryl Becton, an inmate who died under suspicious circumstances at Arlington County Detention Facility in 2020, have filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against the jail, the Arlington County Sheriff, and several members of the jail’s medical staff who […]
By: Jo DeVoe | ArlNow | March 11th, 2020 The family of a man who died in Arlington County jail in 2020 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit blaming his death on willfully negligent care by the county and nurses. Darryl Becton, 46, died in the Arlington County Detention Facility on Oct. 1, 2020. A […]
By: Margaret Barthel and Jenny Gathright | dcist | March 11th, 2022 The family of a man who died in custody at the Arlington County Detention Center is suing the county sheriff and the jail health provider at the time for negligence, gross negligence, willful and wanton negligence, and violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to […]
By: Rachel Weiner | Washington Post | March 11, 2022 Darryl Becton died in October 2020. His family asserts in a lawsuit that he was ignored for hours as he underwent severe withdrawal and was left to die in a cell. When Darryl Becton was brought into the Arlington, Va., jail, according to a lawsuit […]