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A man with “serious mental and psychiatric needs” died from hypothermia in January of last year after he was taken to an Alabama jail and placed in a concrete drunk tank known as “the freezer.” His death was later ruled a homicide, records show. Anthony Don Mitchell died after “spending 14 days incarcerated under horrendous conditions” at the Walker County Jail, according a lawsuit filed by his mother, who accuses corrections officers at the jail of intentionally exposing her son to freezing temperatures which led to his death,USA Today reported. She also accuses the officers of denying him hi…

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