Thirteen months after the sheriff’s office and county received a letter about a forthcoming multi-million-dollar wrongful death lawsuit, attorneys filed against several law enforcement officials on behalf of the family of an 18-year-old man found dead at the Dawson County Detention Center in 2020.
Family files federal lawsuit against sheriff’s officials after son Jonathan Sanford’s 2020 death
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