Reports detail three deaths in three weeks at Metropolitan Detention Center
The cases are the latest among a dramatic increase of in-custody deaths at county jail over the past three years.
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The cases are the latest among a dramatic increase of in-custody deaths at county jail over the past three years.
Metropolitan Detention Center. (Dean Hanson/Albuquerque Journal)
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