(excerpt from) Newsday
4th suicide spurs call for new jail scrutiny
January 7, 2011
The fourth suicide of a Nassau County inmate in the last 12 months has triggered the alarm of a key state lawmaker and inmate advocates…
On Monday, Darryl Woody, 44, of Westbury, hanged himself at the medical center, which handles the jail’s health care…
Inmates Herve Jeannot of Deer Park and Gasparino Godino of Bethpage killed themselves at the jail in October. Eamon McGinn of Brooklyn did so last January.
John Caher, spokesman for the state Commission of Correction, said the agency has begun its mandatory probe of the death, which takes an average of 13 months to complete…
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