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People die in video-monitored cells in jails all the time & then cameras are reported to have malfunctioned. Either because everything in jails is falling apart & they did malfunction, or because footage was destroyed to cover up neglect.
It doesn't mean someone was murdered.
It doesn't mean someone was murdered.
The conditions in MCC are so horrific and decrepit that when you are in the counsel visiting area you can hear rats crawling through the HVAC vents. It is literally falling apart.
I could write a thread with countless examples of jail deaths where cameras have malfunctioned or camera footage has gone missing. Here is one: Kelly Coltrain, whose cell was actually video-monitored. wusa9.com/article/news/n…
What happened in Jeffrey Epstein's case should be carefully investigated, but people incredulous that this could be the reality of how people live and die in jails and prisons need to wake up to the horrors of the criminal legal system in this country.
PS. The irony is that there are many cases where Black and Brown people have been killed by corrections officers in jails and prisons that never get reported or investigated as homicides and yet people are so willing to believe completely unfounded conspiracy theories here.
