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No place to be sick: When jail cell becomes a death chamber
Loaded on Feb. 24, 2017
Filed under:
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Jail Misconduct,
Medical,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Failure to Treat,
Failure to Protect (General),
Jail Specific,
Failure to Train/Supervise,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides,
Staff Training.
Location:
Washington.
Olympia makes no effort to regulate Washington’s jails, the state’s psychiatric hospitals of last resort
By Levi Pulkkinen, SeattlePI.com
Jimi Johnson, bottom, was 27 when he killed himself at Mason County Jail on April 23, 2013. Two years later, on Sept. 16, 2015, Brandon Dahl did the same. Dahl's noose ...
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