Javarick Gantt’s relatives accused the state of failing to protect the deaf man and providing no information about what led ...

A Maryland family is alleging that staff at a Baltimore jail failed to protect a deaf man who was killed by his cellmate in ...

The family of deaf man Javarick Gantt sues Baltimore jail for failing to protect him from his killer cellmate.

BALTIMORE — In the days before Javarick Gantt was strangled to death in jail, he was forced to share a cell with a first-degree murder suspect whose violent behavior had already alarmed his ...

Gantt, who used sign language because he was deaf, struggled to communicate with corrections officers and other detainees, making him especially vulnerable to violence, his family alleges.