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Twenty-three-year-old Ashley Ellis wasn’t officially in solitary confinement, but she was alone in her one-person cell when she died last August at Northwest State Correctional Facility in Swanton, Vermont. She had failed to receive the common over-the-counter supplement she needed for a life-threatening condition, despite having begged for it so often that the guards were calling […]

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A Lonely–and Preventable–Death in a Vermont Prison

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by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway

January 4, 2010

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