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Controversy Surrounds Shackling of Dying and Comatose Prisoners in UK
Loaded on July 31, 2015
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2015, page 48
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Controversy Surrounds Shackling of Dying and Comatose Prisoners in UK
by Matt Clarke
Authorities at Great Britain’s HM Prison Frankland pledged to change the way ill and dying prisoners are shackled in the aftermath of a scathing report by the UK’s prison ombudsman concerning a prisoner who died while chained ...
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