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One Throwaway ‘Jamaican’s’ Sad Real-Life Story

by Michele Landsberg October 10, 2008October 5, 2021

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Anthony’s fate, if he is deported to Jamaica, is surely death. The one old, over-crowded, mental hospital in Jamaica is squalid beyond description. Lethal police brutality against the homeless mental

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