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Jail Nurse Says She 'Witnessed A Murder' When A Black Man Was Left To Die In His Own Waste In His Cell - Blavity

A nurse has spoken out over the death of a Black man who died in his jail cell nearly three years ago.

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BY MOSES MATENGA /RICHARD MUPONDE/LORRAINE MUROMO/HARRIET CHIKANDIWA THE European Union has raised a red flag over the continued incarceration of journalists and opposition leaders in Zimbabwe, as well as the poor state of the country’s prisons which it described as death traps at a time COVID-19

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Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen back in federal prison - TheGrio

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I Can’t Fight Baby: Guards Didn’t Help R. Kelly While He Caught Jail Fade, Allegedly

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