This mentally ill man was pepper-sprayed, choked and hooded before dying in state prison – USA TODAY

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As Marcus Penman slammed his head against a cell door while suffering a mental health episode, not one Kentucky state prison guard tried calming him down. And no mental health care provider was called to deescalate the crisis.
Instead, a 40-minute video obtained by USA TODAY showed a detention officer pepper-spray Penman three times in the face, then tase him six times – including with an electric shock that lasted 18 seconds. A team of six officers – none of whom had any extraction training – dragged Penman out of his cell.

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