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Report: Alabama Prisons a ‘Death Trap’ for Black Men
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Perilous prisons - Correctional facilities most dangerous for sick, mentally ill inmates
More than 400 inmates have been injured in violent altercations inside Jamaica’s prisons since 2018, and more than half of them have had to be taken outside the facilities for emergency medical attention. Many did not survive. At the same time,...
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