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Host: Shawn Spruce
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is promising reforms after a disproportionate number of inmates died while in custody in tribal detention facilities the bureau oversees. We find out what the agency plans and what an internal investigation found out about the deaths of at least 19 jail inmates stemming from what a report referred to as “a pattern of neglect and misconduct”.
Read and listen to the June 2021 report from Mountain West News Bureau and NPR, and the follow-up report on questions over the BIA investigation process.
GUESTS
Nate Hegyi, host of Outside In podcast and former reporter for Mountain West News Bureau
Robyn Vincent, reporter for Mountain West News Bureau
Chris Yazzie (Navajo), brother died while in custody in a BIA jail
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