A Honolulu judge has awarded $1.1 million to the family of a woman who died after hanging herself in a disciplinary segregation cell at the Oʻahu Community Correctional Center in 2022. It is the latest in a series of costly lawsuits triggered by suicides in Hawaiʻi’s prisons and jails.
Diamond Simeona-Agoo, 21, had repeatedly threatened to kill herself, and previously tried to hang herself with a bedsheet while in custody at OCCC. She also had a long, well-documented history of mental illness that included post-traumatic stress disorder, methamphetamine-induced psychosis and audio hallucinations…