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Guards Let California Prisoner Slowly Starve to Death
Loaded on March 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2004, page 33
Guards Let California Prisoner Slowly Starve To Death
Seventy-two year old Khem Singh, who spoke no English and was crippled and wheelchair-bound, died of starvation in his Corcoran State Prison Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) cell on February 16, 2004, after guards allegedly let him waste away without …
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