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Joliet Prison's Fire Alarms Still Broken Despite Deaths
After years of pleading for help, employees at an Illinois mental health prison plagued by deadly fires said that the state made important safety changes following an investigation by the Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times that detailed 70 fires and two deaths there. But the changes don’t go far enough to
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After years of pleading for help, employees at an Illinois mental health prison plagued by deadly fires said that the state made important safety changes following an investigation by the Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times that detailed 70 fires and two deaths there. But the changes don’t go far enough to
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