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Carlos Umana

The Salt Lake City Tribune reports that a young prisoner who apparently suffered from serious mental illness died of starvation and dehydration after spending four months in the Salt Lake County Jail, much of them in solitary confinement. Carlos Umana, 20, weighed at 180 pounds when he entered the jail in October 2010; when he died […]

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Mentally Ill Inmate Starves to Death in Utah Jail

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

June 6, 2011

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