Seven million dollar settlement reached in Texas jail death
A for profit jail corporation and others settle after a Texas woman dies on their watch. 46-year-old Holly Barlow-Austin died at the Bi State Jail in Texarkana in 2019 after she was arrested for probation violation. The lockup, at the time, was run by Louisiana-based LaSalle Corrections. Barlow-Austin was HIV positive.
Her husband brought her medication to the jail but she wasn't give her pills for eight to ten days. Her family's attorney Eric Heipt says Barlow-Austin began developing alarming symptoms. "Over the next several weeks her condition got worse and worse and worse. She was never taken to the hospital or seen by a doctor."
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