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Death before Sentencing - Ending Rampant Suicide, Overdoses, Brutality, and Malpractice in America's Jails (Hardcover)
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Death before Sentencing - Ending Rampant Suicide, Overdoses, Brutality, and Malpractice in America's Jails (Hardcover)
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Death before Sentencing provides a comprehensive description of
America's 3,000 plus county and local jails being ignored by the
media, politicians, and even criminal justice reformers. Jails have
largely escaped scrutiny for deaths in their facilities for several
reasons. First, the nation's jails are local affairs. Even repeat
jail deaths warrant no more than limited local coverage at most.
Jails are mostly run by sheriffs, often the most powerful and
largely untouchable political figure in a local community. Third,
the families of deceased jail inmates do not usually have the
resources to sue or socioeconomic clout to be heard demanding jail
accountability for loved ones' deaths. And lastly, many understood
jail deaths as occurring from "natural causes," the verdict medical
examiners and coroners erroneously employ to allow those
responsible for the deaths to escape any accountability. This book
constitutes the most complete investigation of the deadly side of
jails, describing the daily deaths of detainees, including those
from suicides, drug and alcohol withdrawal, forced restraint and
brutality, as well as medical malpractice. Andrew R. Klein with
Jessica L. Klein show how the failure of jail oversight by state
correctional officials, state and county prosecutors, state police
as well as sheriffs, medical examiners, and coroners allows for the
secrecy surrounding and the cover up of jail deaths. Through a
growing number of wrongful death lawsuits and the increasing role
of the media in uncovering the truth about deadly jails,
communities, led by the grieving families, are working to hold
jailers and their medical providers accountable. This book
concludes with hopeful signs of reforms being initiated by the U.S.
Justice Department under President Biden, state legislatures,
successful lawsuits, and reformers as well as suggests the major
institutional reforms required to stop the daily deaths in
America's jails.
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