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Citing years of police brutality and racial disparities in arrests, activists are pushing candidates to embrace reforms ahead of next week’s Democratic primaries.
After 30 jail deaths in 16 years, the sheriff election in Erie County, New York, could force a reckoning.
The death of 27-year-old India Cummings in 2016 garnered national media attention and a renewed push by local activists over conditions of confinement in the New York county’s jails. But the deaths haven’t stopped.
Reports detail suicides and care for one woman that was ‘so grossly incompetent and inadequate as to shock the conscience.’