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Jailed to Death

More than 150 inmates have died in North Carolina's county jails in the past five years, many of them suicides and a third of them after poor supervision by jailers. A News & Observer investigation uncovers deaths that were ignored and examines the impact of an influx of mentally-ill and drug-addicted inmates who could have been treated elsewhere.

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