From Gothamist.com:
Brandon Rodriguez should have had some reason for hope.
Even though the 25-year-old was in jail following a domestic violence dispute, his top charge had been reduced to a misdemeanor. Eventually, he would get out.
Before his arrest, his mother Tamara Carter remembers he was looking forward to a new job with FedEx. She had lent him a pair of tan pants for his orientation.
“He was excited,” Carter said. “He was supposed to be saving money to get his own apartment, and stuff like that.”
Even from jail, his family says, Rodriguez was insistent that his attorney fight the $15,000 bail that was set in his case. He wanted to get out and get back to work. After a court hearing on Aug. 9th, records show, a Staten Island judge lowered the bail to $10,000.
But the very next day, after less than a week in lock-up, a correction officer found Rodriguez dead inside an intake cell on Rikers Island — hanging with his t-shirt tied around his neck, according to Department of Correction records. Continue reading >>>
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