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After Eight Deaths in Eight Years, Virginia Jail Introduces—Pickleball?
Loaded on March 1, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2024, page 62
Having recorded eight deaths in eight years, Virginia’s Arlington County Jail was likely desperate for good news when it reported in mid-November 2023 that detainees competed in the lockup’s first pickleball tournament.
The densely populated county adjacent to Washington, D.C., saw six jail deaths in as many years before cutting ...
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