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'Like The Walking Dead': Smuggled Drugs Fuel Chaos Inside Ohio Prisons
More than 56,000 drug-seizure records, with hundreds of autopsy and court records read against them. Conditions reporting usually rests on accounts from inside; this rests on the institution's own paperwork about itself, which is harder to wave away. That is why it is here rather than in the wire.
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