Prison Health Services

Thirty nine year old Ruth Hubbs was found dead in the Leon County Jail infirmary on May 16, 2003. She died from an antidepressant overdose and her family filed a lawsuit against the company that oversees inmate care at the facility. Hubbs had been given large doses of the antidepressant Doxepin; she had an intoxicating level of the drug in her system at the time of death. Prison Health Services has agreed to award Hubbs' family a $350,000 wrongful death and negligence settlement. (Sep-24-05) [TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT]

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