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Nine Prisoners Have Died at Rancho Cucamonga Jail in Past Year

The death of an inmate earlier this week at San Bernardino County’s West Valley Detention Center marked the ninth at the Rancho Cucamonga jail in the past year, a sheriff’s spokeswoman said Tuesday. All of the deaths were related to inmate medical issues, sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller said. “To date, nine medical related deaths per year is below average for correction facilities of similar size and function,” Miller said. She said there also was one medically …