The family of a 29-year-old woman who died of a fentanyl overdose while in custody at the Sandoval County Detention Center has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and its private medical provider, alleging staff ignored her severe mental health crisis and failed to prevent lethal drugs from circulating in the jail.
The civil complaint, filed March 25 in the 13th Judicial District Court, names the Sandoval County Board of County Commissioners, medical contractor CorrHealth and several jail administrators and medical personnel as defendants.
In a statement responding to the litigation, Sandoval County Manager Wayne Johnson defended the facility’s operations…