October 16, 2013
Inmate Posthumously Reunited With Tribe After Death in Solitary
Sidney-winner Susan Greene reports on Robert Knott a Native America inmate who was posthumously reunited with his tribe after committing suicide in supermax prison. Knott had been struggling for years with untreated mental illness, a condition that was surely exacerbated by years of solitary confinment.
[Photo credit: Detail of a pow wow dancer from the Ho-Chunk Nation, Robert Knott’s tribe of origin.]