Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — A Cook County Board subcommittee has recommended settling a lawsuit in the alleged mass beating of inmates at the county jail in 2006 -- an incident that has also drawn the attention of the FBI.
The board’s litigation subcommittee Thursday recommended approving a settlement of $750,000, according to the subcommittee chairman and a lawyer involved in the matter. The lead plaintiff in the suit against the county filed in U.S. District Court was inmate Dwond Donahue, who was among more than a dozen inmates who said they were beaten.
“The plaintiffs have alleged in this case that they were subjected to a mass beating, and that essentially this was a jail guard riot in response to one of their own being beaten by an inmate,” said Richard Dvorak, Donahue’s lawyer. Dvorak agreed to the proposed settlement.
Copyright 2009 Chicago Tribune Company