The number of suicides in federal prisons has been rising, drawing allegations of short-staffing and neglect. Now the system is under new scrutiny.
WASHINGTON – When accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself while awaiting trial this month, it was the first recorded suicide at Manhattan’s federal detention center in 13 years.
Stanley Kogut hanged himself with a sheet in an Illinois federal detention center in 2014. His relatives claimed guards ignored signs he was in distress and failed to respond to other inmates' calls for help. Zachary Hill died of an apparent drug overdose in 2015. His mother said guards at a federal prison in Oregon failed to restrict his access to medications, despite a history of overdoses.
Story continues"We are moving expeditiously," Attorney General William Barr said Wednesday, discussing the case briefly in Dallas."And I think soon I will be in a position to report to Congress and the public the results ." "We really just haven't found anything," Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jeremy Desel said."But it is something we are focused on."
The judge's ruling came a month after the Justice Department issued a scathing review of the prison system, concluding that inmates were routinely subjected to horrifying violence and sexual abuse within"a broken system" where people are murdered"on a regular basis.
"We get a radio and set of keys, and we don't know which keys fit which doors," said Morgan, who has often reported to guard duty in nursing scrubs and running shoes because there are no extra officer uniforms. Amanda Kogut said her husband's arrest on robbery-related charges exacerbated his mental illness and"served to intensify his already severe depression."
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