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South African Prison Evacuated Due to Squalor; Two Prisoners Die from Rat-Borne Disease

As bad as it gets in some U.S. prisons, conditions at the notorious Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town, South Africa are so abysmal that the government was forced to temporarily close the facility and evacuate prisoners after two contracted a fatal rat-borne disease.

In 2015, around 4,000 prisoners were removed ...

 

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