Guard in hot cell death has record of leaving her post

Friday, May 30, 2014

NEW YORK -- A jail guard investigators say left her post without permission as an inmate lay dying in his 101-degree cell had been disciplined four years earlier for a similar infraction, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

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