Published Tue May 16 2023 09:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) by Olivia Ebertz On March 28, 2023, a prison guard was waiting outside a room in Rhode Island Hospital. The cogs of justice had been churning in the background for weeks, and the day had arrived: after months of being denied bail, Carol Pona was being released from Rhode Island Department of Corrections custody.  But Pona would die in that very spot approximately six hours later.  On the same day, a little less than two miles away, lawmakers would meet in a Senate committee to weigh a new bill that could overhaul the very measure that saw Pona locked up in the first place.

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