The private company responsible for medical care at Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by a dead inmate’s family.
Wellpath, a Nashville, Tennessee-based company, agreed to settle the case brought by the children of Maurice Monk, who died in the jail in November 2021.
“Maurice Monk’s children will receive some justice for the needless death of their father,” said Monk family attorney Ty Clarke. “There is simply no excuse for any medical professionals, no matter the setting, to neglect their primary duties and their Hippocratic oath.”…