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Family of Rikers Island Inmate Who Died From Untreated Ulcer Receives $1,500,000 Settlement
The family members of Victor Woods, 53, reached a $1.5 million settlement with New York City after Woods died from untreated, bleeding ulcers while incarcerated at Rikers Island, according to the New York Daily News. Woods’ relatives sued the city after he slowly bled to death internally on a cot at the Anna M. Kross…