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© WJW Cleveland residents protest outside the Cuyahoga County administrative building over conditions in local jails.

Cecil Fluker, 40, has been in and out of jail since he was a teenager, and each time he has been grateful to get out alive.

Especially after his stint in 2017. "I felt like my life was in danger," Fluker said of his time in a Cleveland jail in October of that year. Conditions were so poor, he said, he became ill from drinking tainted water.

Others have not been so lucky.

Six inmates died in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, correctional facilities between June and October of this year, three from accidental overdose and three by suicide. The deaths led to an investigation by the US Marshals Service that revealed inhumane conditions in the county's jails, from severe overcrowding to "insufficient and unclear answers" about the recent inmate deaths.

Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, has three correctional centers approved to house 1,765 inmates but which -- according to the marshals' report released last month -- house 2,420.