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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

$** FILE ** In this May 17, 2011, file photo, a man walks near the sign at the entrance to the Rikers Island jail in New York. A Rikers Island jail guard who investigators say left her post without permission as a mentally ill inmate lay dying in his 101-degree cell in February had been disciplined four years earlier for a similar infraction, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)$

Rikers Island guard in hot cell death has record of leaving post

By Jake Pearson - Associated Press

This December 15, 2010 photo provided by the New York State Department of Correctional Services shows Bradley Ballard in New York. In September of 2014, Ballard, 39, who was mentally ill and an inmate at the Rikers Island jail in New York, died a gruesome death there after being locked alone in his cell for seven days. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show Ballard was checked on dozens of times in his cell before he was rushed to a hospital, where he died hours later. Ballard, found naked, covered in feces with a rubber band tied around his badly infected genitals, was jailed in a similar mental health unit at Rikers Island where another mentally ill inmate died in a 101-degree cell in February. (AP Photo/New York State Department of Correctional Services)

2 deaths put NYC jail system under scrutiny

By JAKE PEARSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, a prison guard on horseback watches inmates return from a farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. As summer approaches, corrections officials throughout the country must deal with prisoners’ potentially fatal exposure to extreme heat. Advocates say rising temperatures are a threat to an increasingly mentally ill and aging prisoner population. Lawsuits over heat conditions in jails and prisons have been filed in Arizona, Wisconsin, Illinois, Louisiana, Georgia and Delaware. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Death in hot jail cell highlights national issue

By JAKE PEARSON - 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

FILE - In this March 12, 2014, file photo, a picture of Jerome Murdough is held by his mother and sister in the Queens borough of New York. 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. According to documents obtained by The Associated Press, jail officials were aware of malfunctioning heating equipment and requested repairs the last day Murdough was seen alive, but the needed work didn't happen until it was too late because of a long holiday weekend. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

APNewsBreak: Holiday delayed work in hot NYC jail

By JAKE PEARSON - Associated Press

FILE- In this March 12, 2014 file 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 in a Rikers Island jail cell that multiple city officials say was at least 100 degrees when his body was discovered. The former Marine will be buried in New Jersey on Friday, April 25, 2014, after a modest funeral service in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

Funeral held for NYC inmate who died in hot cell

By JAKE PEARSON - 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. According to a Thursday, April 3, 2014, statement by the New York City Department of Corrections, Rose Argo, the warden of the Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island, has been demoted and transferred to another unit that doesn't house mentally ill inmates. In February 2014, a homeless, mentally ill veteran &quot;baked to death&quot; in an overheated cell at the facility. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

NY warden reassigned in inmate’s death in hot cell

By JAKE PEARSON - Associated Press

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. A malfunctioning damper diverted heat to the top level of a two-tier observation unit at Rikers where a city official told The Associated Press inmate Murdough “basically baked to death” in a cell that was at least 100 degrees last month, the head of New York City’s jails system told lawmakers Thursday, March 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

NYC jail boss details heating problems after death

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

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)

APNewsBreak: NYC inmate ‘baked to death’ in cell

By JAKE PEARSON - Associated Press

An undated photo provided by family showing Jerome Anthony Murdough is seen March 12, 2014, in the Queens borough of New York. 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/Family Photo)

Mentally ill Marine veteran ‘basically baked to death’ after NYC jail cell neglect

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