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Antonio Fox, 35, from Jackson, Mississippi, collapsed in a holding cell while speaking to jail staff, Indiana State Police reported.

The settlement is the largest legal settlement for the wrongful death of an incarcerated person in Indiana.

During Joshua McLemore's 20 days in solitary confinement, he lost 45 pounds, and by the time he was transported to Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, he was too frail to lift his own body.

The prosecutor in Jackson County filed misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident.

Educators from across the state packed the statehouse Thursday demanding legislators prioritize public education. The estate of a man who died in 2021 while in custody of the Jackson County Jail has filed a lawsuit.

McLemore died from multiple organ failure. The official cause of death stated it was due to refusal to eat or drink because of his untreated schizophrenia. 

Jackson County Jail officials were deposed last March, showing a failure to execute medical protocols leading to the death of Ta'Neasha Chappell.

Chappell's family believes the 23-year-old Louisville resident was poisoned while she was an inmate at the Jackson County Jail.

A second inmate at Jackson County jail died within a month. He rarely ate or drank for the 19 days he was there.

A Jackson County prosecutor says there are no signs of foul play in the death of a Jackson County Jail inmate in July.