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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hadn't read his story, but went back and read everything. The prolonged detention is absolutely awful, unconstitutional.

The video - he started both of those confrontations, certainly the one with other inmates. You can clearly say something to the guard too, although I wonder what it was to warrant a physical response like that.

He was at a very delicate age where mental health issues often emerge. What he went through clearly was extremely harmful to him, and was not right (the prolonged detention), but I'm apt to think it exacerbated issues instead of caused them.

Either way, I'm very sorry for his family and what a sad story. [/quote]

I don't know - that much time at rikers at that age would have made me crazy. You are right that late teens/early twenties is when mental health problems often emerge and anything is possible. But it definitely seems more likely that he was mentally destroyed by what happened (and that could have happened early on - then causing him to instigate some altercations later on). It also didn't seem like he had access to great mental health care once he got out. [/quote]

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