The Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center Monday, May 8, 2023, as the Philadelphia Department of Prisons reported the escape of two prisoners the day before. Read more Tom Gralish / Staff Photographer

by Abraham Gutman and Aubrey Whelan Published Sept. 16, 2025, 4:02 p.m. ET

Four days after Amanda Cahill was arrested in a September 2024 coordinated law enforcement sweep throughout Kensington, she was found unresponsive in her jail cell.

A federal lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of Cahill’s mother and two children says the 31-year-old from Roxborough died of a drug overdose from fentanyl she obtained inside the city’s Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center on State Road. The complaint asks for damages of at least $10 million.

John Coyle, a McEldrew Purtell att

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