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The family of a man who died in the Tulsa Municipal Jail has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the City of Tulsa, a private security contractor and the jail administrator of ignoring years of warnings about dangerous conditions inside the facility.
The lawsuit, filed July 9 in federal court, stems from the February 2025 death of Brian Bonner, a 38-year-old man who died from a treatable throat infection after spending three days in the city jail. Bonner is one of at least seven people who have died at the facility since January 2023, an investigation by The Frontier found…