America’s Rural-Jail-Death Problem
This is the second in a five-part series about deaths in American jails. Read the first here.Illustrations by Molly Crabapple In the early-morning hours of January 7, 2019, when it became clear that 30-year-old Christopher Hall might die, no medical staff were on duty at the Boyd County Detention Center.Hall had been booked into the rural eastern-Kentucky jail in the final days of 2018 on a drug-possession charge.