Fatal confines? A teen's troubling death in tribal jail

SEATTLE (AP) — On April 10, Andrew Westling was arrested in the city of Yelm for allegedly being a minor in possession of alcohol and spitting on a customer at a gas station minimart.

Although the 19-year-old wasn't a tribal member, Yelm police took him to the nearby Nisqually Corrections Center in Thurston County under an unusual contract in which the city pays the tribe to house its prisoners.

After Westling told a jail officer he had a heart condition — and once had to be resuscitated — he was put into a cell where jailers were supposed to keep an eye on him.

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