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Scientists develop rapid blood test to identify patients at higher risk of severe COVID-19 complications
"We need to understand why some patients, irrespective of their ages or underlying health i…
PTI
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Jail staff knew Lashawn Thompson's cell was full of filth, records show, but no one saved him before his family says he was 'eaten alive' by bugs
Fulton County Jail staff raised concerns over Lashawn Thompson's cell conditions and his health bef…
Narimes Parakul,Natalie Musum…
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Edward Snowden says Julian Assange 'could be next' after John McAfee dies by suicide in jail
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in April 2019 in the UK, and a UK court temporarily b…
Azmi Haroun
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One person died and 2 others were injured in a stabbing at Fulton County Jail, where Trump and his co-defendants were booked. More than 20 people have died in custody at the facility.
The facility, which faces allegations of harboring filthy conditions, has seen at least 24 deaths i…
Associated Press,Lloyd Lee
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Aaron Hernandez's casual prison behavior 'chilled' guards, according to a new Netflix documentary showing how he lived a double life of NFL stardom and murderer
"He talks to his mom a certain way. He talks to his fiancée in a different way. He talks to his for…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Rep. Ilhan Omar says a man who called her office and said 'tell her I'm going to kill her today' has been convicted of threatening lawmakers
The man was also convicted of calling another congressman and claiming he was a member of the gang …
Kelsey Vlamis
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Report Says Cleveland Kidnapper Ariel Castro's Suicide Was 'Perhaps Inevitable'
The Associated Press reports that the man who kidnapped three women and imprisoned them in his Clev…
Pamela Engel
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The feds botched Whitey Bulger's prison transfer so badly that the infamous Boston gangster had 'lost the will to live,' a watchdog found
Bulger was kept in a single cell as his transfer from a Florida to a West Virginia prison dragged o…
Jake Epstein
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Feds probe case of inmate locked in a shower 'torture chamber' and scalded to death
40-year-old Dade Correctional inmate Richard Mair hanged himself in 2013, leaving a suicide note th…
Natasha Bertrand
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More inconsistencies are emerging in the arrest of a black woman in Texas who ended up dead in her cell
When asked if she had thought about killing herself in the past year, Bland apparently responded "N…
Natasha Bertrand,Christina St…
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Nelson Mandela Dead: Former South African President Has Died At 95
Mandela's struggle was one of the defining stories of the 20th century. Trained as a lawyer, he bec…
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A migrant father separated from his wife and child at the US-Mexico border had a breakdown at a Texas jail and took his own life
"If you cross the southwest border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you," Sessions said in a spee…
Michelle Mark
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If politicians are serious about fighting the pandemic, there's a clear way to do it: release people from jail
Our elected officials will be responsible for thousands of deaths in jails and prisons if they stan…
Ashish Prashar
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A year after death of a Mississippi man in police custody, Insider ramps up its probe into 1 county's practices
Insider requested records related to five deaths in one year connected to a single Mississippi sher…
Kenneth Niemeyer,Hannah Beckl…
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Inside the federal West Virginia prison where gangster Whitey Bulger was beaten to death
In the months before Bulger was transferred to USP Hazelton, a high-security prison, two inmates ha…
Natalie Musumeci
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The stories coming out of this Oklahoma jail are horrifying
From there, things got violent. Sanchez subdued Martin with the help of other officers, pushing his…
Harrison Jacobs
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'Free speech or die': Portland knife attacker claims self-defense
Jeremy Christian, 35, had stood in a glass-walled holding cell in the courtroom throughout a brief …
Terray Sylvester
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Isolation blues? Myanmar's ex-political prisoners share survival tips
The Southeast Asian state spent nearly half a century under a paranoid, secretive junta that violen…
PTI
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Several Dead As 'Freak' Sandstorm Blankets Tehran, Iran [PHOTOS]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration explains that these wind storms, or "haboobs," …
Pamela Engel
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I'm incarcerated at San Quentin prison for 55 years to life. I didn't think things could get worse until COVID-19.
San Quentin State Prison in California has one of the biggest clusters of coronavirus cases in the …