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As Ryan Wilson hanged from a noose fashioned from a bedsheet and tethered to his jail cell’s light fixture last November, a corrections officer at the Manhattan Detention Complex implored his boss to open the door, court documents said.
But Capt. Rebecca Hillman stalled and claimed Wilson, 29, was “playing” and faking it, according to prosecutors. Wilson, who battled depression and anxiety, had warned Hillman of his plans to kill himself, but she didn’t take him seriously.
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Recently a slew of Republican-held states, like Georgia, have passed or are considering restrictive voting laws.
But there are also issues in New York City, where prisoners must rely on the effectiveness of prison staff to secure their votes.
There are a number of things Bill de Blasio and his colleagues can do to ensure that prisoners get a chance to vote.
Ashish Prashar is the Global Chief Marketing Officer at R/GA and a justice reform activist.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
Jim Crow remains alive and all too well among voters in Georgia, Florida, and yes, in New York City, where the most diverse field ever to seek the mayor s office is preparing for a June primary.
The history of how Virginia acquired its first electric chair
Virginia s ultimate sanction was carried out for more than a century on an oak chair from Trenton, N.J. used to execute 267 people who were deemed too vile or dangerous to live among us.
Their limbs and torsos bound by straps and heads crowned with a metal helmet and brine-soaked sponge, the last moments and thoughts of some of the state s most egregious criminals were spent in an electric chair first installed at the Virginia State Penitentiary in 1908.
If the chair was a symbol of extreme, immutable justice, it was also a tool of racial intimidation for much of its history. In modern times, a more diverse group of offenders were electrocuted or killed by injection on a gurney first used in 1995.
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