State finds fault with Nassau jail over ex-Marine's suicide
Family and friends attend the Bellmore funeral for Bart Ryan, a former Marine who committed suicide last Friday in the Nassau County jail. Videojournalist: Jim Staubister (Feb. 28, 2012) (February 28, 2012 3:34 PM)
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Bartholomew Ryan, 32 -- a decorated Marine who survived a wartime tour in Iraq only to hang himself in the Nassau jail -- was improperly assessed by a doctor for suicide risk, a state report said.
"The Board finds this assessment . . . to have been inadequate," read the report released last month by the state Commission of Correction, 13 months after Ryan's Feb. 24, 2012, suicide. It said...
