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U.S. Marshals Report: Ohio County Jail “One of the Worst in the Country”
Loaded on March 5, 2019
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2019, page 12
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Wrongful Death,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Ohio.
by Matt Clarke
One week after the release of a report by the U.S. Marshals Service on November 21, 2018, which described Ohio’s Cuyahoga County jail system as “one of the worst in the country,” jail administrator Ken Mills resigned. Citing the report’s findings, seven prisoners at the facility ...
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