Suicide Prevention at Butner (Clinton: attorneys, medical, psychiatrist)

[goldenage1]

No one is sorry to see Ted Kaczinski is gone. However, the official policy of the Federal Bureau of Prisons is to try to prevent prisoner suicide. I am awaiting the answer as to how Ted K. got the means to commit suicide. I assume it was an overdose of a drug. Either someone slipped up, or someone bribed to slip him something.

Does anyone think there will be an official punishment for that guard?

[wizard-xyzzy]

I don't. Suicide in jails and prisons is a known problem and not uncommon. https://bjs.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xy...jsfp0019st.pdf It's difficult enough to find persons willing to take jobs in jails and prisons.

[Jkgourmet]

Originally Posted by goldenage1

No one is sorry to see Ted Kaczinski is gone. However, the official policy of the Federal Bureau of Prisons is to try to prevent prisoner suicide. I am awaiting the answer as to how Ted K. got the means to commit suicide. I assume it was an overdose of a drug. Either someone slipped up, or someone bribed to slip him something.

Does anyone think there will be an official punishment for that guard?

I think you're making a heckuva lot of assumptions.
I would think his family is sorry to see him go.
You "assume it was an overdose of a drug."
You're saying a guard was maybe bribed. And intimating that said guard won't be prosecuted/punished.

Talk about a rush to judgement.

[GarnetAndBlack]

He was in late stages of cancer. If he was that fragile it may not have taken much to end his life.

[Jkgourmet]

Originally Posted by GarnetAndBlack

He was in late stages of cancer. If he was that fragile it may not have taken much to end his life.

Or maybe he just refused treatment. Some in this society/culture would call that suicide.

[goldenage1]

Originally Posted by GarnetAndBlack

He was in late stages of cancer. If he was that fragile it may not have taken much to end his life.

Thank you. That is understandable. The newspapers did not mention that possibility.

I should also have acknowledged that Ted's brother and sister-in-law were survivors who would regret his passing.

[JackieRTP]

While awaiting trial in 1998, Kaczynski attempted to hang himself with a pair of underwear. Though he was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as a paranoid schizophrenic, he was adamant that he wasn’t mentally ill. He eventually pleaded guilty rather than allow his attorneys to present an insanity defense.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/...medical-center

[DeepImpact]

What did he have on the Clintons?

[Starglow]

Originally Posted by GarnetAndBlack

He was in late stages of cancer. If he was that fragile it may not have taken much to end his life.

He probably got tired of waiting for his inevitable death from cancer and just decided to end it himself.

[cjseliga]

Originally Posted by JackieRTP

While awaiting trial in 1998, Kaczynski attempted to hang himself with a pair of underwear. Though he was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as a paranoid schizophrenic, he was adamant that he wasn’t mentally ill. He eventually pleaded guilty rather than allow his attorneys to present an insanity defense.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/...medical-center

Yeah, unless a prisoner is completely naked 24/7/365, it is hard to prevent a prisoner from committing suicide using their clothes.