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| NY Inmate Dies while on Suicide Watch |
| By theepochtimes.com |
| Published: 01/16/2015 |
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NEW YORK—A mentally ill inmate who hanged himself on New Year’s Day in a Rikers Island jail cell was supposed to be placed on suicide watch, but it wasn’t implemented, two city officials told The Associated Press on Friday. A jail psychiatrist who saw Fabian Cruz on Wednesday at a clinic ordered that Cruz be transferred to a special observation unit in a different Rikers facility where he’d be placed under constant watch, but Cruz told a guard at the clinic he didn’t want to go and was transferred back to his jail cell, the officials said. Letting Cruz go back to his cell was a violation of Department of Correction protocol because inmates don’t get to decide where they’re housed, said one of the officials, who both spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation into what happened. Read More. |
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