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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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Guard Watched as Man Hanged Himself in Jail, Prosecutors Say
Capt. Rebecca Hillman was charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death, which has added to criticism of New York City’s jail system.
Prosecutors say Rebecca Hillman, a correction officer at the Manhattan Detention Complex, stopped another officer from preventing a prisoner from hanging himself.Credit.Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times
April 26, 2021Updated 6:59 p.m. ET
Ryan Wilson had been held at the Manhattan Detention complex for less than a month when he fell into a deep depression last November.
After an argument with another person at the jail, Mr. Wilson fashioned a noose out of a bedsheet and attached it to a light fixture. He told an correction officer that he would hang himself if he was not allowed out of his cell, according to court documents.