In a county jail in central Texas, an inmate on suicide watch begins strangling himself The guard watching him does not rush in because of security rules that prohibit him from going into a cell alone, leading to an agonizing 10-minute wait before another staffer arrives to provide backup.
Derrek Monroe, who died the next day in a hospital, was among the first of 48 jail suicides launch of a sweeping Texas law aimed at reducing such deaths through better screening and monitoring.
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