Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The family of Brian Harmon, a Monroe County Jail inmate who died in custody nearly three years ago, has filed a civil rights and wrongful-death lawsuit, claiming his death was preventable.

"He essentially got no medical care at all for nine days."

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