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DALLAS (AP) - County officials approved a nearly $1 million settlement Tuesday with the families of three mentally ill inmates who were denied medication while in the country's seventh-largest detention complex.
Just over half of the award went to James Mims, a Dallas County jail inmate whose psychiatric medications were withheld for two months in 2004, his attorney David Finn said. Mims also nearly died when water was shut off in his cell for two weeks.
"They could just not afford to have this case go before a jury," Finn said.
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