One incarcerated man slashed his own throat and bled out while guards watched. Another, fleeing a group of attackers, took refuge in a staff bathroom and within minutes had hanged himself. A third climbed a barbed wire fence with his bare hands and plunged 50 feet into the East River.
These aren’t tales from a far-off penal colony but from the New York City jails.
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