Children of woman who died in custody will receive $825,000 from county and medical provider.

The children of Larra Ann Gillis—the woman who died after being held 28 hours in custody at the Monterey County Jail in 2015—will receive a $825,000 settlement from Monterey County and California Forensic Medical Group, United States District Court Judge Lucy Koh ruled on Sept. 7.

Gillis was arrested in Marina on Dec. 4, 2015, on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance and resisting arrest. On Dec. 5 she was found unresponsive inside her county jail cell and taken to Natividad Medical Center, where she never regained consciousness before she died on Dec. 14.

An autopsy later showed Gillis died from multiple-organ failure due to a urinary tract infection, a treatable medical condition.

A lawsuit filed by the family in 2016 contends that Gillis received inadequate medical treatment from contractor CFMG. It also accuses sheriff’s deputies of waiting 55 minutes to call an ambulance after she was found unresponsive in her bare, rubber-padded cell.

“It was a total failure to watch out for people in their care,” family attorney Elise Sanguinetti told the Weekly in November 2016.

After the settlement on Sept. 7, Sanguinetti said it will make a “real difference” for Gillis’ children, James Gregory and Brandon Villareal.