‘He was a human being’: US prisoners are dying from treatable conditions
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Exclusive: a Guardian investigation finds that inmates who died of preventable conditions were deemed malingerers and ‘time wasters’Jennifer Jasper-Thompson was shocked when she received a call from the New Jersey department of corrections (DOC). Her nephew Damien Jasper, who had been incarcerated at Northern state prison in Newark, was dead at just 32.His autopsy indicated that he had died from testicular cancer, considered one of the most treatable forms of cancer, even when caught in an...

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