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The US Marshals' Detention Empire: Hunting the Documents
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October 23, 2019
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The US Marshals’ far-flung detention system has never been thoroughly examined, in part because the agency has resisted the release of information. Journalist Seth Freed Wessler had to sue them in federal court to obtain the annual inspections they conduct of facilities they use.
Data found through the suit shows that 158 people died while in Marshals detention between June 2016 and June 2019, and hundreds more died in the preceding five years. It’s a rate of death that far outstrips that of the parallel federal system run by ICE, but on par with the troublingly high death rates in county jails in general.
Read Wessler's full investigation for Mother Jones, in partnership with Type Investigations, revealing that America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty
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