Riverside County pays $1.8 million to family of man beaten to death by jail cellmate

Riverside County has agreed to a $1.8 million settlement following a federal lawsuit regarding the death of an inmate at the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio. The legal action alleged that sheriff's deputies failed to protect the victim, who was fatally beaten by his cellmate using a crutch. This settlement concludes the litigation brought by the family of the deceased, addressing claims of negligence within the county's correctional facility system.