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In recent months at least two families have collected after filing federal lawsuits contending that Minnesota jail inmates died after receiving inadequate medical care.
September 2007: Mille Lacs County agreed to pay $700,000 to settle a lawsuit contending that jail employees rebuffed pleas for medical care from Brandon Brown, 18. He was jailed on an unrelated warrant after suffering head injuries in a car accident and later died of complications from the injury.
March 2007: A federal jury awarded $530,000 to the family of Walter V. Gordon, 43, who died of heart failure while serving a five-day sentence in the Washington County jail in 2004.

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