By Rachel Rundengan |Staff Writer| A woman found dead in jail, a man suddenly immobilized shortly after his arrest, a man with a medical condition found on the floor of a jail due to negligence, a girl arrived at a juvenile detention only to be taken to a morgue the next day. Death, while in police custody, is needless to say, always very controversial. “A total of 4,446 inmate[s] died in 2013 – an increase of 131 deaths from 2012,” according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Report on Arrest-Related Deaths (ARD). When ARD occur, many different reactions take place within law enforcement, medical community, and public. Though they might come up with various interesting … [Read more...] about Deaths under police custody need accountability
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