Photo via justicenotjails.org Before breakfast on November 8, 2014 in the women's jail in Los Angeles County, a popular inmate named Unique Moore started coughing and complained that she couldn't breathe. A 37-year-old African-American, she had a history of diabetes, asthma and severe mental illness. She told her jailers when she was locked up for her final time, according to a recent lawsuit filed against LA County, "She had a long history of asthma and that if she had an episode where she could not breathe, that it could be fatal without the proper first aid."�But on that morning, Moore struggled to get her breath on the lower bunk and asked her cellmate, or "cellie," in the top bunk to...
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