$2 Million Settlement In Restraint Chair Death
POSTED: 5:22 pm MST May 10,
2007
UPDATED: 5:30 am MST June 20,
2007
PHOENIX -- CBS 5 News has learned county taxpayers have paid out $2 million to the family of a man who died in Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail.ARCHIVE: 7/2/06 - Read And Watch Original 5 Investigates Report Clint Yarbrough was brought into the Fourth Avenue jail in December 2005.Deputies said he appeared drugged and became combative, so guards put him in a restaint chair and wheeled him into a hallway where he sat for more than three hours.He eventually passed out and was transported to a local hospital where he died.Yarbrough's family filed a claim against the county and the sheriff's department.CBS 5 News investigated new details about that claim. In mid-April, the county board of supervisors agreed to settle it for $2 million.Last August, Arpaio announced he was no longer using the highly controversial restaint chairs. Instead, detention officers now use what is called a safe bed.
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