Prison Deaths Questioned

Hundreds of deaths in federal prisons pass without proper review by the Correctional Service, says the nation’s Correctional Investigator. Howard Sapers said authorities typically take years to conduct a cursory review of inmate deaths attributed to “natural causes”, like the inmate who died of cancer after being treated with antibiotics: ‘It is first and foremost a prison service’.

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