Inmate Deaths Reveal Torturous Use of Tasers

Inmate Deaths Reveal Torturous Use of Tasers
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In the sixth installment of its series on Tasers, “Shock Tactics,” Reuters documents 104 prisoner fatalities after corrections officers deployed Tasers, often with other force. Most inmates were unarmed, and many were handcuffed or pinned to the ground. Some abuses, experts say, are akin to torture.

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