$7 million settlement over Delco inmate's suicide
Janene Wallace’s final 52 days on Earth played out in the same torturous loop.
Lost in the grip of depression and paranoia, Wallace, 35, spent 23 hours a day locked in solitary confinement at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware County, where she was being held in 2015 on a probation violation.
As Wallace’s condition deteriorated, a guard at the prison allegedly taunted the Upper Darby woman and encouraged her to kill herself. On May 26, Wallace hanged herself with a bra she tied to an air vent in her cell.
That appalling yet familiar narrative formed the foundation of a lawsuit attorneys David Inscho and Shanin Specter filed two years ago on behalf of Wallace’s estate against Community Education Centers, a for-profit prison company that ran Hill at the time.
The lawsuit was recently settled for $7 million, Inscho and Specter announced Thursday.
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