Federal jury announces $9,544,375 award against Choctaw County after jail inmate death

MUSKOGEE — An eight-person federal jury meeting last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, found the Choctaw County Sheriff’s Department negligent in the June, 2020 death of Jennifer Diane Crowell, who at the time was incarcerated in the Choctaw County Jail.Jurors deliberated for approximately three hours and 25 minutes before returning the guilty verd...