ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) A southern New Mexico county announced on March 5 that it reached a $15.5 million settlement to end the legal battle over the case of a man who was held in solitary confinement for two years without a trial and was so neglected that he took out his own tooth.
The settlement stemmed from mediation ordered by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Doña Ana County had appealed a lower court decision that upheld a $22 million judgment last year to former inmate Stephen Slevin.
