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Members of Congress Seek Answers From Prisoner Transport Company

Officials demand details about deaths and sexual abuse on transport vans.

Three members of Congress are demanding information about abuse and deaths aboard the private vans that transport prisoners around the country.

The written request was sent Wednesday from senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory

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