Jury awards $2 million to family of Maryland inmate

A civil jury in Prince George's County determined Thursday that Maryland state corrections and highway officials and a private dump truck driver were liable in an accident in which a prison inmate was killed by the truck while he was on a work detail. The jury awarded his relatives more than $2 million.

After a trial that lasted nearly two weeks, the jury awarded $2.025 million to relatives of Rodney Jennings, who was 28 when he was fatally injured Aug. 23, 2007, while picking up trash on the Capital Beltway in the Landover area.