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Sickness in Jail Can Be a Death Sentence

By Matt Pulle
Dallas Observer | September 19, 2005
An inmate at the Dallas County Jail who was diagnosed with schizophrenia hung himself; his body showed no traces of the medication he was supposed to be taking to control his disease.
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Tags: mental illness, David Finn, Mark McLeod, public defender Julie Doucet, Texas Tech University

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