Payout for US detainee who miscarried after police stopped for coffee on way to hospital

Southern California officials agree to pay Sandra Quinones, who went into labor while detained in local jail, $480,000

Southern California government officials have agreed to pay $480,000 to a woman who went into labor while detained in a local jail and then lost her baby after the guards stopped at a coffee shop while taking her to the hospital.

The payment - designed to settle a federal wrongful death lawsuit pursued by the mother, Sandra Quinones - was approved at a 23 August meeting of the Orange county board of supervisors, according to the minutes of the panel's session that day.