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An East Baltimore family is suing a juvenile offenders school for negligence and wrongful death after there 17-year-old son died there last year.

The amount requested in compensatory damages… represents every minute that Isaiah Simmons, who died January 2007 at Bowling Brook Preparatory School, suffered from physical restraint “that caused his slow, agonizing and excruciating death,” said Steven H. Heisler, the family attorney, during a news conference at his Baltimore law offices this morning. On some counts, the suit calls for an additional $207 million in punitive damages.

Simmons, 17, lost consciousness while counselors at the privately run school in Keymar pinned him facedown to the ground, restraining him for about three hours.

“This incident simply should have never happened, and should never happen again,” said Heisler, who sat in front of several members of the Simmons family, including the teen’s sisters, mother and 3-year-old daughter.