{"id":239450,"date":"2013-02-12T09:35:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=239450"},"modified":"2013-02-13T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T08:25:00","slug":"judge-approved-settlement-in-gregg-county-inmate-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=239450","title":{"rendered":"Judge Approved Settlement in Gregg County Inmate Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=239451\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-239451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/02\/50e3c7e580319.image_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"50e3c7e580319.image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-239451\" \/><\/a>MARSHALL (AP) &#8211; A federal judge has approved a $1.9 million settlement between an East Texas county and relatives of a drug-recovering inmate who died in custody. The agreement approved Monday in Marshall was reached by Gregg County and survivors of 33-year-old Amy Lynn Cowling of Gilmer. Cowling was under the care of a methadone clinic when she was arrested on Christmas Eve 2010 on misdemeanor theft warrants. Relatives say Cowling was denied her prescription drugs while in custody and died several days later. <\/p>\n<p>The Marshall News-Messenger reported Tuesday that most of the money goes to Cowling&#8217;s children &#8211; ages 14, 17 and 19. Her mother Vicki Bankhead was awarded $750,000. Five jailers were fired or reassigned after the death. Two have been indicted. Gregg County admits no wrongdoing in the settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARSHALL (AP) &#8211; A federal judge has approved a $1.9 million settlement between an East Texas county and relatives of a drug-recovering inmate who died in custody. The agreement approved Monday in Marshall was reached by Gregg County and survivors of 33-year-old Amy Lynn Cowling of Gilmer. Cowling was under the care of a methadone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=239450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judge Approved Settlement in Gregg County Inmate Death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 01:41:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239450"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239758,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239450\/revisions\/239758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}