Prisoner dies of apparent suicide in jail after being refused mental health services at state hospital

this is radio boston Hosted by Tiziana Dearing.

• It’s been a week since Adam Howe died in prison by apparent suicide. His death raises questions about the role the state can play in mental health care for people in the legal system.
• In this week’s Classroom Away from Conflict, women’s protests in Iran are impacting members of our community here. We speak to an Iranian graduate student about seeing from a distance a world in which her country is in turmoil.
• A special event will be held tonight in Christ Church, Cambridge, to honor the man buried next to the two men who enslaved his parents. Darby, one of the founders of his Society of Africans in Boston in 1796 and a lifelong anti-slavery advocate, learns of Vassal’s life from his descendants.

Means: You can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) and the Samaritans Statewide Hotline (call or text) at 1-877-870-HOPE (4673). Call2Talk is located in Massachusetts at 211 or 508-532-2255 (or 741741 from the text c2t).