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| Prisons often withhold death reports |
| By bendbulletin.com - AP |
| Published: 02/14/2012 |
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SALEM, Oregon — Seventy-nine inmates in Oregon prisons died over a two-year span, but the state Department of Corrections made only one of those deaths public. The prisons agency has no plan to change its policy of making public only those deaths of “certain high-profile or notorious inmates,” the Salem Statesman Journal reported Monday. The newspaper was able to compile information about the other deaths from internal prison reports obtained through public records law, court filings and other documents. Most inmates were dead of natural causes, but among the unreported deaths in 2010-11 was a prisoner who died of a suspected drug overdose and a convict who cut his wrist. Read More. |
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