Delaware to pay $7.5M to settle suit over deadly prison riot
DOVER, Del. — State officials have agreed to pay more than $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit stemming from an inmate riot at Delaware’s maximum-security prison that left a correctional officer dead.
Under the settlement announced Friday, 11 plaintiffs, including six Department of Correction employees and relatives of slain officer Steven Floyd, will share $7.55 million.
In settling the lawsuit, state officials did not acknowledge any wrongdoing, and claims against individual current and former state officials were dismissed.
“For the reasons stated in our court filings, the claims against all of the individual defendants lacked legal merit,” attorneys for the state said in a joint statement announcing the agreement. “All of the defendants wish to express, however, their condolences and respect.”