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When he headed the civil rights division of the Clinton Justice Department, Mass. Governor Deval Patrick tried to end abuse for mentally ill prisoners. In the third of a three-part story about suicide in prisons, the Boston Globe asks why not the same for Mass.?

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Posted on: December 18, 2007 | Comments (0)
Topics: human rights, prisons, suicide

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