Tag: Bergen County Jail suicides
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GUARDS BLAME INMATES FOR JAIL STAMPEDE; Testify in Overcrowding Suit
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, May 1, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | B03 Inmates protesting the food service at the Bergen County Jail trampled three corrections officers in a stampede for the dining room door before guard dogs were sent in to quell the January disturbance, several officers…
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DEATH BEHIND BARS: 4 INMATES HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN THE PAST YEAR; Pate of Hangings Rocks County Jail
By Bill Sanderson and Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writers | Sunday, April 5, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | A01 Cristian F. Slane’s last letter to his mother and brother arrived the day after he committed suicide in the Bergen County Jail Annex. “Life here is hell,” wrote Slane,…