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Raleigh Priester

  • Age: 52
  • Name of Jail: Broward County Jail
  • Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
  • Cause of Death*: Starvation
  • Incarceration Type: Pre-Trial Detention
  • Private Company: Armor Correctional Health Services
  • Incarceration Duration: 155 days (five months)
  • Date of Death: June 10, 2012

"U.S. Army veteran with a two-decade history of schizophrenia"; he died weighing 120 lbs, having been 240 lbs five months earlier. Had been jailed for throwing a rock and hitting a parking attendant in the back. Spent final months in solitary confinement, delusional.

Attorney Greg Lauer filed a lawsuit; settlement reached. ACLU challenged the jail over its conditions.

Raleigh’S SCRAPBOOK

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