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Family of California Prisoner Who Committed Suicide Settles Suit for $595,000

by Scott Grammer

Jason Nishimoto, 44, committed suicide on August 27, 2015 by hanging himself with a bedsheet after being placed in solitary confinement at the Vista Detention Facility (VDF) in San Diego, California.

Nishimoto had been diagnosed as a “high-functioning paranoid schizophrenic” at age 18, and, according to a ...

 

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