By Patrick Wilson | Richmond.com | July 8 2022 The state officials who review jails found a Northern Virginia sheriff in violation of state regulations after the death of a 46-year-old man who was left unattended by medical staff. The Arlington County Jail submitted a corrective action plan to the state on how officials there […]
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 […]
By Gary A. Harki and Margaret Matray The Virginian-Pilot | Original Source APR 27, 2021 at 9:00 AM Click to read the letter from the Board of Local and Regional Jails PORTSMOUTH — The state agency that oversees jails wants to shut down Hampton Roads Regional Jail, where 53 people have died since 2008. The jail has shown “an egregious lack […]
By: Gary A. Harki, | The Virginian-Pilot | August 5th, 2020 The U.S. Justice Department has filed a consent decree agreement in federal court with the Hampton Roads Regional Jail that, if approved, would force the jail to better care for its detainees, increase staffing and adhere to the Americans with Disabilities Act. The action […]
Today, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia filed a complaint and a proposed consent decree with the Hampton Roads Regional Jail Authority. The proposed consent decree would resolve the United States’ claims alleging unlawful conditions at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth, […]
By Adrienne Mayfield | Wavy | January 16, 2020 1:42 PM PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – A $7 million wrongful death lawsuit was filed Wednesday against eight Portsmouth Police Department officers after a pregnant woman died while in a holding cell at the city jail. 28-year-old Carmeita Jane VanGilder died while in a holding cell at […]
By Adrienne Mayfield | Wavy | July 15, 2019 6:29 PM PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — An inmate who died in October complained of overwhelming stomach pain and bloody vomit to the correctional and medical staffs at two local jails in the days and weeks before her death. Now her father is suing the leadership of […]