Title: N.Y. prison guards beat inmate hours before his suicide: suit - New York Daily News
Headings: N.Y. prison corrections officers brutally beat inmate hours before he committed suicide: suit
N.Y. prison corrections officers brutally beat inmate hours before he committed suicide: suit
Stephen Rex Brown

Content: Advocates have called for a ban on solitary confinement at state prisons, saying the practice is torture that elevates the risk of suicide behind bars. The city has banned solitary entirely for inmates 21 and younger. Some 4,000 people are in isolation in state prisons, according to the Halt Solitary Campaign. Fifty New York prisoners died in the past five years due to insufficient medical care, according to a 2018 state medical review board report. At least seven inmates have committed suicide at Wende since 2010. Advertisement
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He said he felt “like a burden to his family,” according to the suit. “ Feeling depressed and thought about hanging himself” another report noted. “Having keep lock time, with little to entertain himself, makes it hard,” read another report. Dante Taylor is pictured with his mother, Darlene McDay, in 2017. (