By Bill Galluccio
Apr 27, 2021
Ryan Wilson, who had been a prisoner at Manhattan Detention Complex for about a month, was ordered to be transferred to another housing unit by Captain
Rebecca Hillman after he got into an argument with another inmate.
While waiting for the transfer, Wilson threatened to hang himself and tied the bedsheet into a noose. Another guard radioed Hilman for assistance, but she did not come immediately. After ten minutes, Wilson draped the noose over the light fixture, tied it around his neck, and jumped off the bed.
The other guard asked to open the cell door, but Hilman said to keep it closed, claiming that Wilson was just playing. After about a minute, she ordered the guard to open the door but wouldn t let him provide medical aid to Wilson.
Prison guard let inmate hang himself because she thought he was faking it
Captain Rebecca Hillman has been suspended without pay following the November 22 death of Manhattan Detention Complex inmate, Ryan Wilson, who died by suicide in his cell
Capt. Rebecca Hillman turned herself in to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (Image: CBS)
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Hillman s lawyer, Kenneth Montgomery, said she is a “hardworking mother and employee who did her best in a very difficult job that is defined by trauma and tragedy” and that they “look forward to defending the serious charges against her.”
Shortly before Wilson hanged himself, a subordinate officer concerned about the detainee s wellbeing told Hillman that she was immediately needed in the housing unit, prosecutors said, but she kept doing paperwork in a jail control room instead.
Wilson, a 29-year-old held at the Manhattan Detention Complex for about a month on a robbery charge, was upset that Hillman was moving him to a different housing unit because of an altercation with another inmate, prosecutors said.
(NEW YORK) — A New York City Department of Correction captain is behind bars and charged with negligent homicide after she allegedly watched an inmate kill himself and did nothing, a district attorney said. Rebecca Hillman, 38, was charged with negligent homicide in connection with the Nov. 20, 2020, suicide of Ryan Wilson at the [.]