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FILE - In this March 12, 2014 file photo, a picture of Jerome Murdough is held by his mother Alma Murdough left, and sister Cheryl Warner at Alma Murdough's home in the Queens borough of New York. The homeless former Marine died in February, 2014 in a Rikers Island jail cell that multiple city officials say was at least 100 degrees when his body was discovered. The city on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014 reached a $2.25 million settlement with Alma Murdough. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

$2.25M deal reached in hot NYC jail cell death

By Colleen Long - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 17, 2011, file photo, a man walks near the sign at the entrance to the Rikers Island jail in New York. Jerome Murdough, a 56-year-old mentally ill inmate at Rikers Island jail, &quot;baked&quot; to death in his overheated cell during one of the coldest recorded winters in city history. The mother of a mentally ill, homeless veteran who was found dead in a one-hundred-degree New York City jail cell plans to file a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit. Family attorney Derek Sells says he’ll ask the city to preserve all communications and 911 recordings regarding Jerome Murdough’s death on Rikers Island at a press conference Friday May 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

$25M lawsuit over inmate who died in hot NYC cell

By JAKE PEARSON - Associated Press

In this March 12, 2014 photo, Alma Murdough and her daughter Cheryl Warner hold a photo of Murdough's son, at her home in the Queens borough of New York. Jerome Murdough, a mentally ill, homeless former Marine arrested for sleeping in the roof landing of a New York City public housing project during one of the coldest recorded winters in city history, died last month in a Rikers Island jail cell that multiple city officials say was at least 100 degrees when his body was discovered. Murdough, 56, was found dead in his cell in a mental observation unit in the early hours of Feb. 15, after excessive heat, believed to be caused by an equipment malfunction, redirected it’s flow to his upper-level cell, the officials said. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Mayor: NYC inmate’s death in hot cell is troubling

By JAKE PEARSON and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press