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Canadian Prisoner Dies After Drinking Drug-Laced Vomit, Others Charged
Loaded on April 15, 2004
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2004, page 28
Canadian Prisoner Dies After Drinking
Filed under:
Medication,
Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Accidents,
Drug Treatment/Rehab.
Location:
Canada.
Drug-Laced Vomit, Others Charged
by Michael Rigby
Prisoners at the Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (Canada) have been drinking each other's drug-laced vomit in order to get high. One woman has died as a result of this gut-wrenching practice, and three others ...
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