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malthaussen

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4. Death-in-Custody Act was first promulgated in 2000

Reply to Bluenorthwest (Reply #3)

Fri May 1, 2015, 11:04 AM

May 2015

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics here: http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=82

I'll cop to "innacurate" on the "decades" hyperbole. But surely the point is that we haven't even been reporting such deaths -- let alone incidents short of death -- to any reliable extent up to today?

-- Mal

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