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Five Deaths in Eleven Months at California Jail Spark Grand Jury Probe
Loaded on Feb. 4, 2015
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2015, page 20
Filed under:
California Forensic Medical Group,
Private Contractors,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Suicides.
Location:
California.
Five Deaths in Eleven Months at California Jail Spark Grand Jury Probe
A Santa Cruz County, California grand jury investigation concluded that a multitude of breakdowns contributed to the deaths of five jail detainees over an 11-month period between August 2012 and July 2013.
Four of the deaths occurred after ...
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