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Sheriff Dart Calls for Changes to Indigent Burial Practices

 CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 18, 2011.  More than a year after uncovering a horrific scandal at Burr Oak Cemetery, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart detailed new concerns about what he has learned are common practices in the cemetery industry – practices he said are not only disturbing, but which also threaten to impede criminal investigation processes by law enforcement agencies.

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Dart’s concerns center on indigent burials. Paid by taxpayers, hundreds of these burials are done every…

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