Nearly three months into a 10-year sentence, Denise Short asked prison staffers at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Pearl to place her on suicide watch.
Prison officials ignored Short’s request, instead placing her in solitary.
A day later, correctional officers found Short’s body.
An investigation found there were at least 47 suicides in solitary confinement in Mississippi, where cries for mental health care were met with isolation and punishment.
