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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke’s Jail Under Fire for Deaths, Civil Rights Abuses
Loaded on Aug. 30, 2017
by Christopher Zoukis
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2017, page 52
Filed under:
Restraints,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Wisconsin.
by Christopher Zoukis
At least four people, including a newborn, have died in Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County Jail since April 2016. The facility, run by Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr., houses about 950 detainees daily. The string of deaths has raised concerns about conditions at the jail, including whether adequate medical ...
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