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Prison Deaths: A National Shame
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2007
by Ira P. Robbins
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2007, page 29
While the human rights abuses of prisoners detained in Guantánamo Bay and the Middle East have sparked widespread criticism and debate in this country and abroad, surprisingly little attention has been focused on the treatment of citizens imprisoned within our borders. Each year, approximately 7,000 Americans die in U.S. prisons ...
Filed under:
Crime/Demographics,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Statistics/Trends,
DICRA,
Federal Legislation.
Location:
United States of America.
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