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Resource ID: #28928
Subject:Prison Reform
Source:Conrad Wilson, Tony Schick, Ryan Haas, Austin Jenkins, Sydney Brownstone
Affiliation:Oregon Public Broadcasting, Northwest News Network, KUOW
Date:2019-12-30
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Description
Since 2008, at least 306 people across the Northwest have died after being taken to a county jail. Until now, that number was unknown, in part because Oregon and Washington have not comprehensively tracked those deaths in county jails. If they did, they would find a crisis of rising death rates in overburdened jails that have been set up to fail the inmates they are tasked with keeping safe.
