The family of a man who killed himself while being held in the Ocean County Jail was awarded a $1.55 million verdict Wednesday in a suit claiming jail administrators failed to follow their own suicide-prevention policy.

The jury found that Ocean County was 60 percent liable for the death of Kenneth Conforti, and a private health care contractor, Correctional Health Services, was  40 percent liable. The jury’s apportionment of fault brings the county’s payout to $930,000, though Correctional Health Services entered into a confidential settlement in the case before trial.