Suicide victim should not have been left alone

By STEPHEN GAY, Guardian Staff Reporter, stephen@nasguard.com Murder accused Asa Bethel, who was found dead hanging from a shower at Her Majesty's Prison, should not have been left alone, former prison Superintendent Edwin Culmer said yesterday. Culmer, who was replaced as head of HMP by Dr. Elliston Rahming in 2005, said an officer should have been in the immediate area of Bethel. "That inmate should have been under supervision for 24 hours. That was (a) rule in the prison from many superintendents back," Culmer told The Nassau Guardian. "From superintendents past there has always been a program of rehabilitation. But you must remember in a prison (things) are not 100 percent and something will slip through the cracks. Regardless of who is in charge, sometime things happen. Some of the staff that you put there who were... [read full story]