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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

DA: 4 jail guards failed to act as inmate attempted suicide

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Four New York City jail guards have been indicted for failing to intervene in an inmate's suicide attempt until it was too late to save the teenager from serious brain damage, authorities announced.

The correction captain and three correction officers waited nearly eight minutes before providing any assistance to 18-year-old Nicholas Feliciano at the Rikers Island jail complex on Nov. 27, 2019, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said Monday.

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