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05-03-2023, 11:18 AM
BY ERIC FERKENHOFF AND VALERIE BAUMAN ON 3/3/23 AT 6:00 AM EST
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Price, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had an IQ below 55, died wide-eyed, naked and starved in August 2021 after a year of isolation at the Sebastian County Adult Detention Center, where he had been held pending trial because he could not afford to pay $100 bail
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"The only thing I can make of this is malfeasance on a massive scale," said Tammie Gregg, a former official with the Special Litigation Section of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division who is now deputy director of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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"It wasn't just one party or one part of the facility that was responsible for his care. Systems failed across the board from the correctional team," Gregg said. "They wrote him off, and they kept moving."
Much more at: https://www.newsweek.com/arkansas-man-ja...ht-1785225
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Price, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had an IQ below 55, died wide-eyed, naked and starved in August 2021 after a year of isolation at the Sebastian County Adult Detention Center, where he had been held pending trial because he could not afford to pay $100 bail
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"The only thing I can make of this is malfeasance on a massive scale," said Tammie Gregg, a former official with the Special Litigation Section of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division who is now deputy director of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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"It wasn't just one party or one part of the facility that was responsible for his care. Systems failed across the board from the correctional team," Gregg said. "They wrote him off, and they kept moving."
Much more at: https://www.newsweek.com/arkansas-man-ja...ht-1785225
