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Family of Layleen Polanco Awarded Record $5.9 Million in Settlement over Her Death

HeadlineAug 31, 2020

In New York, the family of Layleen Polanco — a 27-year-old transgender Afro-Latinx woman who was found dead in a jail cell at Rikers Island last year — has been awarded $5.9 million to settle a lawsuit against the city. Polanco died from an epileptic seizure in June 2019 after she was left in solitary confinement for nine days. Polanco was being held at Rikers on $500 bail.

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