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Kane In Your Corner: Family of jail inmate sues after broken neck death

A Plainfield family is filing a civil rights lawsuit against Middlesex County and Piscataway Township, stemming from the death of a 27-year-old prisoner who died of a broken neck while physically restrained

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Sep 29, 2015, 1:03 AM

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