Amy Goodman
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U.S. Prisons Have a Mental Health Crisis. This Story of a New York Prisoner’s Death Helps Reveal Why
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11:05Now PlayingA major new Marshall Project investigation looks at the the mental health crisis in U.S. prisons by diving deep into the story of Karl Taylor, a prisoner who died at a maximumsecurity prison in the Catskills of New York after an altercation with prison guards in 2015. Karl Taylor was serving out a minimum 27year sentence for a rape conviction when his life came to a sudden end at the Sullivan Correctional Facility in April of 2015. The AfricanAmerican prisoner had been diagnosed with delusional disorder and paranoid personality disorder when he was taken into custody in 1995. By April of 2015, Taylor was housed in a special unit at Sullivan for prisoners classified as mentally ill. He had spent nearly ten years in solitary confinement. That’s when he got into what would turn out to be a fatal altercation with a prison guard. We speak with investigative reporter Tom Robbins, author of “Why Is Karl Taylor Dead?”
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