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jail medical care

The Medical Examiner Said He Died of ‘Excited Delirium.’ Medical Experts Say Police Strangled Him to Death.

Sterling Higgins died in a Tennessee jail in 2019 after officers pinned him to the floor. Two new medical experts’ reports describe the incident as homicide.

Tana Ganeva Mar 10, 2021

Her Son Couldn’t Move His Limbs Or Swallow. Jail Officials Insisted He Was Faking.

In a federal lawsuit, Hardel Sherrell’s mother accuses the staff at a Minnesota jail of allowing her son to die.

Kira Lerner Dec 12, 2019