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AP Investigation: Many US jails fail to stop inmate suicides

AP Investigation: Many US jails fail to stop inmate suicides

By /June 17, 2019 /Local News

The last time Tanna Jo Fillmore talked with her mother, she was in a Utah jail, angry, pleading and desperate. She’d called every day that past week, begging for help. I need my medicine, she demanded. I have to get out of here! she screamed. Fillmore was in the Duchesne […]

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Nearly $1M inmate medical bill highlights problem for jails

Nearly $1M inmate medical bill highlights problem for jails

By /July 30, 2018 /Local News

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Medical bills for a Utah jail inmate are nearing $1 million, sparking the sheriff’s resignation and highlighting widespread struggles to pay for inmate health care. Jails are required to provide inmates with necessary medical care, and the Salt Lake Tribune reports the cost of 49-year-old […]

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