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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Ind. Law - County to jail architect: Pay up or get sued
"County to jail architect: Pay up or get sued" is the headline to a story today in the Munster (NW Indiana) Times that begins:
Porter County has presented the designers of its jail with a bill and an ultimatum.County Attorney Gwenn Rinkenberger wrote to jail architects Schenkel Shultz, of Fort Wayne, on Monday that the ceiling design of some cells allowed one inmate to get out of his cell and into the ceiling in 2004 and two inmates to escape from the jail in September 2005.
If the architect does not accept responsibility and pay the $355,000 it cost to fix the ceiling, Rinkenberger writes, "that will leave us with no other course but to file suit against Schenkel Shultz for this design error.".
Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 14, 2005 10:25 AM
Posted to Indiana Law