Daquan Wallace, locked up in Baltimore on a burglary charge in 2014 and unable to post $800 bail, was savagely attacked by fellow prisoners.
Maryland officials on Wednesday ended years of litigation by agreeing to pay $7 million to a Baltimore man who was beaten and left paralyzed in a notoriously violent state-run jail, where he was being held on a burglary charge because he could not afford to post $800 bail.Daquan Wallace, now 28, was attacked so viciously by gang members in 2014 in the old Baltimore City Detention Center that he suffered catastrophic brain damage, rendering him unable to walk or speak, according to his lawyer.
With Wednesday’s meeting adjourned, Maryland Treasurer Dereck E. Davis and Comptroller Brooke Lierman approached Wallace, who was sitting beside his grandmother. “I’m so sorry this happened and I’m glad we can provide some resources to you and your family moving forward,” Lierman told him. “Something like this should never happen.
The next step would have been a ruling by the state Supreme Court. But neither side wanted to go that far. Wednesday’s action also ends a pending federal case.
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