Straw to Meet the Family of Prisoner Who Starved

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Justice Secretary Jack Straw has agreed to meet the family of a prisoner who died in custody weighing less than seven stones and looking like "a victim of the Nazis".

Mr Straw's department has already admitted that it has "deep regrets" over the case of Martin Green, of Midway, who died at Blakenhurst Prison, Redditch, after an inquest jury found that the heroin addict's medical care was inadequate and criticised the failure to transfer Mr Green to hospital when he needed treatment.

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Straw to Meet the Family of Prisoner Who Starved

South Derbyshire MP Mark Todd has taken up the case in the House of Commons and pressed Mr Straw to me...

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