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Report: Fewer inmates dying in California prisons

For the second year in a row, fewer people are dying in California prisons, according to a federal receiver who's trying to improve California's prison health care system in an inmate mortality report set to be released today.

For the second year in a row, fewer people are dying in California prisons, according to a federal receiver who's trying to improve California's prison health care system in an inmate mortality report set to be released today.

The report says that between 2006 and 2008 the rate of death among California inmates declined 13 percent…

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