A look at some recent New York jail suicides

Friday, June 27, 2014 - 01:00 in Health & Medicine

NEW YORK (AP) -- Investigative documents obtained by The Associated Press on the 11 suicides in New York City jails over the last five years show that in at least nine cases, protocols and safeguards designed to prevent inmates from harming themselves weren't followed. Here are brief accounts, based on the city and state documents, of some of those cases:...

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