one case
The family did not want a check.
Kellsie Green died in an Anchorage jail cell in 2016, five days after she was booked, in heroin withdrawal. Her family wanted the State of Alaska to put its name to what it had done. It did: a wrongful death judgment against the Department of Corrections for $400,000, the most the law allows, and the first Alaska has entered without a trial.
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