A man who sat in Denver jail for five days because he couldn’t afford a $50 administrative fee won a substantial amount of money after the city settled a lawsuit about the case Thursday, his attorney said.

Denver’s attorneys settled with Mickey Howard for a “meaningful monetary payment” and the city agreed to no longer hold jail inmates who paid bond but could not afford the fee, as ordered by the Denver County Court.

Howard’s attorney, Rebecca Wallace, would not disclose the amount of the settlement Thursday at her client’s request. Wallace is a staff attorney at the ACLU of Colorado, which filed the lawsuit on Howard’s behalf.

“It recognizes the injustice done in this case,” she said.

The Denver City Attorney’s civil litigation office did not immediately return a call Thursday asking for the settlement amount.

Howard had $64 dollars when he was booked into jail June 9 on charges of domestic violence and public intoxication, according to the lawsuit. He paid his $10 bail and a $30 fee for fingerprinting and a mug shot, but couldn’t afford the $50 bail fee.

Howard, then 25, sat in jail for five days, though he had not been convicted of any crime and the case against him was later dismissed. A coalition of community advocates later paid his bond fee so he could be freed.

Howard was also billed $504 for an ankle monitor he had to use before his case was dismissed. Howard was also billed a $25 public defender fee, but when he couldn’t pay, it was sent to collections and he was also charged a $50 failure-to-pay fee and a $30 collection fee, according to the lawsuit.

“He has no bank account and only intermittent employment as a temporary laborer,” according to the lawsuit. “He had no friends or family to bond him out. Thus, Mr. Howard faced the reality that he could spend months behind bars awaiting trial, solely because of his poverty.”

The Denver Department of Public Safety announced Wednesday that it eliminated fees for pre-trial monitoring, which costs up to $11 a day, according to the department.

“I started this case to get justice and make change,” Howard said in a news release from the ACLU of Colorado. “Nobody should be stuck behind bars just because they cannot pay. With the ACLU’s help, we have made lasting change, and that makes me proud.”

El Paso County paid a $190,000 settlement to compensate 184 people who were held in jail only because they couldn’t afford a $55 pretrial supervision fee after the ACLU of Colorado sued, according to previous Denver Post reporting.

The ACLU of Colorado applauded Denver’s policy changes in a news release on Thursday.

“The ACLU of Colorado commends Denver for its prompt and just resolution of this case,” according to the release. “Within days of this case being filed, Denver ended the practices that had caused Mr. Howard’s detention. But Denver went far beyond making policy changes to ensure pretrial defendants were not imprisoned for inability to pay fees.”