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Dying Behind Bars: At least 220 people died in Ohio jails over 4 years
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoMaggie Copeland knew she needed help the day she walked into jail. The 29-year-old mother of a...
A Los Angeles Jail Let a Woman Die of Withdrawal, Then a Coroner Allowed Her Body To Decompose
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIllustration: Lex Villena; Vitaliy Mitrofanenko Amanda Bews was arrested last September after...
2 people were sent to Ohio jails just miles apart. One received treatment. The other died
The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe difference between life and death for people arrested and sent to jail can be a matter of miles...
Suit: Staff at Anoka jail withheld opioid withdrawal meds from inmate who collapsed, was injured
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 2 months agoVomit covered Deyonta Green's face while blood pooled in his skull by the time Anoka County Jail staff finally intervened in a harrowing and untreated weeklong spiral of heroin withdrawals, ...
Bucks County has settled 4 inmate death lawsuits since 2016. Here's what it costs
Bucks County Courier Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBucks County and its corrections health care provider have paid at least $2 million since 2016 to...
She was an ice skating Olympic hopeful who wound up on heroin and in jail. Now she’s taking on the...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoINTERVIEW: Author Keri Blakinger went from star athlete to jailed heroin addict and social justice...
How prescription opioids led to meth, heroin and fentanyl for this Boise woman | Opinion
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBy the time she was 16 years old, Siena Thompson had undergone two back surgeries for a back problem...
Amid fentanyl crisis, Oregon lawmakers propose more funding for opioid addiction medication in jails
Statesman Journal via Yahoo News· 4 months agoPORTLAND — Kendra Sawyer spoke with her dad from the Deschutes County jail and told him she loved...
Records: WA hired ID thief, heroin dealer to treat mental patients. He stole their money
Tacoma News Tribune via AOL· 2 years agoMark James doesn’t deny that he stole more than $5,000 from 13 mental patients he counseled at...
Family of man who died within hours of arriving at Sacramento jail sues county
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe family of a man who died of an apparent overdose within hours of arriving at the Sacramento...