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Posted on December 7, 2010 | tags

 
 

U.S.: New York psychiatric patient’s death-by-restraint ruled homicide

  • unfortunate A psychiatric patient at the South Beach Psychiatric Center on New York’s Staten Island was acting out and had to be restrained. He died as a result of the facility’s actions.
  • unfortunater Investigators have labeled Jawara Henry’s death, due to chest and neck compression, a homicide. It was not a judgment on the facility’s conduct, authorities say. source