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Failure to Report

Number 23834
Subject Prisons
Source City Paper (Washington, D.C.)
State DC
Year 2008
Publication Date 04/11/2008
Summary After a 10-month long FOIA battle, Smith reveals internal-affairs reports about the suicides of two inmates who were mentally ill in the D.C. jail. The reports showed "an attempted cover-up and widespread misconduct by D.C. jail officials and a medical services contractor."
Category Contest Entry
Pages 12
Keywords jail; prison; mental illness; FOIA; suicide; cover up; internal report; corrections officer; attorney general; Thomas Alemayehu; Alicia Edwards
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