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A 40-year-old man who had depression and was in mental health therapy died by hanging at Bertie Correctional Institution in North Carolina in May 2022, according to a medical examiner's report as described by the Charlotte Observer. He had been held in solitary confinement for about five months before his death. A second man, 28, who also had depression, hanged himself with a sheet at the same prison in June 2022, about three weeks after being placed in solitary confinement. According to the Observer, he had asked a prison mental health case worker for help before his death. The medical examiner's report, as described by the Observer, classed both deaths as suicides.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The medical examiner's report, as described by the Observer, found that the man hanged himself.
Reported by: medical examiner's report, as described by the Observer (medical examiner or coroner).