Family settles suit in jail death
Source: By Christian Bottorff, Lansing State Journal, March 19, 2006
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a former Lansing woman who died of massive head injuries in a solitary confinement jail cell has been settled. The family of Estelle Richardson sought $60 million in the federal lawsuit that accused Corrections Corp. of America, which runs the Metro Detention Facility, and four guards who struggled with her the day before she was found dead.