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Death Sentence: The Feds Throw the Book at King County'sJail as Prisoner Fatalities Skyrocket

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2008 by Rick Anderson published in Prison Legal News February, 2008, page 18

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Jail Misconduct, Medication, Systemic Medical Neglect, Skin, Gastrointestinal, Failure to Treat, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides, Guards/Staff, Guard Unions. Location: Washington.

Death Sentence: The Feds Throw the Book at King County's Jail as Prisoner Fatalities Skyrocket

by Rick Anderson

A few months after two prisoners in the downtown King County Jail in Seattle, Washington committed suicide in 2005--one by overdosing on hoarded jail medications, the other by hanging himself with a ...