New York, December 5 (RHC)-- In New York City, four Rikers Island correctional officers have been suspended after video showed the officers stood by for seven minutes while a teenager attempted to hang himself at the notorious jail facility.
Video shows one officer even walked up to the holding pen where the teenager was hanging, opened the door, then closed the door and walked away without intervening. 18-year-old Nicholas Feliciano had been jailed in Rikers since November 19th when he was arrested on a parole violation. He is now hospitalized in a medically induced coma after the suicide attempt.
Rikers Island officers stood by as teenager attempted to hang himself
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