Multnomah County reached a $2.5 million settlement with the family of Clemente Pineda, an inmate who died two years ago in Portland’s downtown jail while detoxing from fentanyl.
Pineda went into withdrawal and died on Aug. 1, 2023. A guard and a certified medication aide had checked on him six times over the course of the afternoon, throughout which he was breathing but unresponsive, WW reported two weeks after Pineda’s death.
The 36-year old received no medical attention for his condition until he stopped breathing, and at that point it was too late to resuscitate him…