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Reports shows staggering spike in Louisiana prison deaths
A new report sheds light on a rise in the number of people dying behind bars in Louisiana prisons, jails and juvenile detention centers. The Incarceration Transparency Project at the Loyola University Law School says there's been a 50 percent jump in deaths from 2019 to 2021. Roby Chavez, NewsHour's communities correspondent based in New Orleans, joins John Yang to discuss.
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