4th suicide spurs call for new jail scrutiny
Photo credit: Craig Ruttle | The exterior of the Nassau County jail facility Friday. Comprising more than 10 percent of the suicides that have taken place in all of the jails and prison in New York State in the last year, a fourth inmate has again taken his life at the Nassau County Jail, officials said. It is the third suicide at the facility that holds more than 1,600 people, and the fourth one this year Nassau Police have investigated. (Jan. 7, 2011)
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The fourth suicide of a Nassau County inmate in the last 12 months has triggered the alarm of a key state lawmaker and inmate advocates.
Both the county jail and the inmate medical care supervised by the Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, where the latest suicide occurred, had been the subject of federal oversight for six years ending in 2005.
On Monday, Darryl Woody, 44,...
