John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by gpt5 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @06:57PM (#27611607)

Also of note - suicide in the US is extremely difficult if you've been identified as someone with intention. You get checked on every 15 minutes, including at night (which can be a torture by itself)

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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by beambot on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:35AM (#27614028)

Doesn't seem that uncommon:

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/02/13/jaildeaths/

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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by Broken_Hippo on Thursday June 24, 2021 @03:49AM (#27614973)

I'm going to mention that this jail was not in the US. I'm not familiar with jail policies in Spain, and it might be easy.

As far as the US is concerned, you've quoted policy. I'm pretty sure that jails and prisons in the US are supposed to provide medical care, mental health care, food enough for decent health (without having maggots): There are plenty of examples of it not happening. "I didn't know they were suicidal" or "We've been short staffed, and I couldn't check on him" are easy excuses.

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Re:John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approv... by pupdogg on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:57PM (#27613372)

15 minute checks aside, I’m pretty sure every federal prison has enough amount of cameras to keep an eye out from the local central command station…especially in 2021. Still surprised there was no evidence of this sort for Jeffery Epstein.

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