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Family receives $2.25M in hot cell death settlement

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer has announced a $2.25 million settlement with the family of a Rikers Island inmate who died in a cell that reached over 100 degrees. Jerome Murdough, a 56-year-old

News 12 Staff

Oct 31, 2014, 9:58 PM

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