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Stephen Starr in Dayton, Ohio

Medical provider to US jails failing to keep its patients alive, advocates say

NaphCare's headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama.
NaphCare's headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama. Photograph: Google Maps

When Isaiah Trammell experienced a mental health episode while detained at Ohio’s Montgomery county jail in February last year, he pleaded for a blanket, a mat and a phone call.

He was denied them because he was on suicide precautions.

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