Its settlement with Tanya Suarez means San Diego County will now have paid out $27.1 million over five years to settle cases involving deaths and serious injuries in its jails.
SAN DIEGO (AP) A woman who blinded herself in jail while under the influence of drugs as a deputy watched will receive $4.35 million in a settlement with San Diego County, her lawyer said. Tanya Suarez had sued the county alleging jail staff failed to protect her from harming herself after she was arrested in 2019, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported late Wednesday.
When she was taken into custody at the Las Colinas women’s jail in Santee, the woman was acting oddly and clawing at her eyes, according to jail paperwork,.