The family of a woman who died at a Bureau of Indian Affairs detention center on the Spokane Reservation in Washington has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
Misty E. Ford, 28, died of a heart attack at the Wellpinit Law Enforcement and Detention Center in November 2004.
Her family says she was denied medical care despite having known heart and pulmonary conditions.
The suit names the BIA, correctional officers and the director of the Indian Health Service clinic on the reservation. The complaint seeks unspecified damages [Link].
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