Death Sentence: Alarming' number of inmates dying in local US jails 2/2/14

Published on Feb 2, 2014

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Being put in the slammer in America can be a life-threatening proposition.

The most recent data from the U.S Ministry of Justice shows more than 11 thousand people died in local jails in the decade to 2011.

As RT's Ameera David reports, some of those hadn't even been charged.



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