what if steven hayes wasn't only thinking about ending it all? what if he figured that though 10 klonopin and 10 doses of thorazine might kill him, chances are it was nothing more than a quick high and a long nap. hayes had plenty of experience taking pills. he was a drug addict for most of his life.
when you think about it, what's the worst that could happen to him? He dies? no big deal for someone in hayes' situation. and if he doesn't die, there are a couple of distinct upsides: first, he makes the prison look foolish, a goal of every longtime con. and, who knows? maybe he could even get a psych ticket out of the trial--which is a possibility.
it's a conspiracy theory at best, i know. but a con with hayes' time behind bars works angles that most people would never think of.
speaking of conspiracy theories, you have to hand it to Thomas Ullman. Hayes' attorney has taken the circumstance of his client's attempted suicide and turned a murder trial into an indictment of Connecticut's DOC
not that the DOC doesn't deserve to be indicted.
still, to cut the Ct. jail system a bit of slack, if anyone knows how to commit suicide in jail it's steven hayes. he has done time in no less than 15 different prisons in the state of Connecticut, and has spent most of his adult life behind bars. he knows every trick in the jailhouse book.
and macdougall-walker finds itself in a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. steven hayes was on a round-the-clock suicide watch after he allegedly tried to kill himself soon after the Cheshire murders. the uproar then was about the money being wasted on hayes' personal guard. so the guard gets taken away, and now the uproar is why wasn't the jail paying closer attention.
not by any stretch is macdougall-walker above reproach. but maybe this situation is a little more complicated than just right and wrong.
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