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: The first time he told staff he felt suicidal as a way to be served food, his mother said. Subsequent stays in isolation were punishment for him abusing the dangerous synthetic marijuana K2 and Molly, according to the suit. [More New York] One NYC homeless man stabbed another to death in Lower East Side skate park: cops »
“That’s not a recognized treatment for somebody with substance abuse problems: lock them in a cell for three months,” attorney Katie Rosenfeld, who filed the suit, said. 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.