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Maryland Prisoner Strangled to Death in County Jail

HeadlineJul 01, 2008

And in Maryland, the state’s medical examiner’s office has concluded a nineteen-year-old man was strangled to death while in solitary confinement in a Prince George’s County jail. A preliminary autopsy concluded Ronnie White died of asphyxiation. Two small bones were broken in his neck. White died two days after he was arrested and charged with murdering a police officer. The FBI has begun a civil rights probe.

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