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CMS Overdoses Five Boston Jail Prisoners
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2002, page 10
Five prisoners at Boston's Suffolk County jail in Massachusetts were rushed to a nearby hospital after receiving the wrong medication. Jail guards found the five prisoners unconscious on the morning of September 23, 2001, after other prisoners alerted the guards by raising a commotion in their cells. Thomas Burke, Shawn …
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