Justice Department launches civil rights probes into South Carolina jails after at least 14 inmate deaths

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43% : "We are committed to ensuring that people held inside jails and prisons are not subjected to excessive force, violent conditions, inadequate medical and mental health care, and other dangerous physical conditions while in the custody of their local government," said Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division, in a statement.

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