NYC inmate ‘baked to death' in cell

Thursday, March 20, 2014

NEW YORK -- Jerome Murdough was just looking for a warm place to sleep on a chilly night last month when he curled up in an enclosed stairwell on the roof of a Harlem public housing project where he was arrested for trespassing.

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