Jury awards $1.5 million to family of man who died of diabetes complications in Philly jail
March 03, 2026
Philly Voice: “The family of a man who died in a Philadelphia jail of complications from diabetes has been awarded more than $1.5 million in damages by a jury.
Louis Jung Jr., 50, of South Philly, died of diabetic ketoacidosis caused by severe lack of insulin in 2023 at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Holmesburg. Jung’s three sons filed a lawsuit in federal court in 2024 against the city, the Philadelphia Department of Prisons and the company that provides health care at the city’s jails, for wrongful death and medical neglect.
The lawsuit alleged that the jail failed to monitor Jung’s blood glucose levels, administer insulin and send him to the hospital when his blood glucose levels became dangerously high. Late Monday, a jury awarded Jung’s family more than $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $170,000 in punitive damages for violations of Jung’s constitutional right to necessary medical care, Jung’s lawyers said.
‘For the Jung family, yesterday’s verdict was about accountability, about ensuring that Mr. Jung’s memory and the injustice that happened to him is remembered,’ Rupalee Rashatwar, a staff attorney at the Abolitionist Law Center, a public interest law firm in Philadelphia that represented the family, said Tuesday.'”