Why 14 inmates have died in Atlanta jails this year, four times more than last year

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In October, a Georgia inmate named Shamar McLeroy was found dead in his cell, his hands and feet bound, in a death officials are investigation as a homicide.

The 21-year-old was facing charges of child molestation and public indecency, but his family says this shouldn’t mean that his time in an Atlanta-area jail was a death sentence.