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Prisoners’ Death Rate Report Indicts Prison Medical Care by Implication
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2009
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2009, page 12
Filed under:
Medical,
HIV/AIDS,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Cardiovascular,
Cancer,
Diabetes,
Hepatitis,
Statistics/Trends.
Location:
United States of America.
Prisoners’ Death Rate Report Indicts Prison Medical Care by Implication
by David M. Reutter
A report by the US Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics has issued a report on the 12,129 state prisoners’ deaths reported between 2001 and 2004. That report examined the circumstances and causes of death ...
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