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Lawsuit: New Mexico county failed to monitor suicidal inmate

| October 23, 2020 12:03 AM

SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico county that held an inmate struggling with drug addiction failed to properly monitor him before he took his own life, according to a wrongful death lawsuit.

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