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Layleen Cubilette-Polanco died in solitary confinement Online Cigarettes Store USA at Rikers Island in June 2019 after having an epileptic seizure.
According to a report by the city's Board of Correction, Polanco was placed in solitary confinement and experienced at least two seizures while in custody.
Her family settled with the City of New York for $5. 9 million on Monday, the largest settlement amount of its kind.
"I have no faith in the city, I have no faith in anything that they do, besides them paying people out, that's all they do, " Polanco's sister Melania Brown told The New York Times. Layleen Newport Cigarettes Shop Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco, a 27-year-old transgender woman, died in a jail cell in June of last year.
She was being held at at Rikers Island after not being able to afford her $500 bail.
The City of New York has now reached a settlement of $5. 9 million with her family — the largest of its kind, The City reported on Sunday.
"This settlement will allow Layleen's family to move forward without enduring years of protracted litigation and reliving their trauma, " the family's lawyer, David Shanies, told The City in a statement.
Polanco was arrested in April last year on misdemeanor charges Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes of assault and harassment, then taken into custody after she missed court dates, CNN reported, citing court records.
Layleen Polanco was found unresponsive in her cell after having an epileptic seizure, which an autopsy later confirmed was the cause of her death.
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