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Robert Ecoffey, the Bureau of Indian Affairs' director of enforcement operations, also oversaw management of 74 prisons and jails throughout tribal lands where investigators have found decrepit conditions that may have contributed to an undisclosed number of deaths.

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Meanwhile, the FBI confirmed Tuesday that it is conducting multiple investigations into deaths at Indian country detention centers. Those inquiries are separate from a continuing review of prison conditions and fatalities by the Interior Department's inspector general.

The FBI and the Interior Department did not disclose the number of deaths under investigation. But both agencies have reviewed the case of Cindy Gilbert Sohappy, 16, who died in December in a holding cell. The teenager was intoxicated and collapsed while in custody in a Salem, Ore., boarding school attached to the Chemawa Indian School. Her death raised questions about lax monitoring of cells. (