Strauss-Kahn forced to wear prison ‘suicide smock’

Rachel Quigley and Daniel Bates
Mail Online
May 20, 2011

Bleary-eyed, unshaven and forced to wear a blue anti-suicide smock, this is Dominique Strauss-Kahn pictured in jail ahead of his bail hearing.

The former head of the International Monetary Fund had to give up his expensive suit for the unflattering one-piece during his stay in New York’s notorious Rikers Island prison.

Inmates are put in the sleeveless garment, called a ‘suicide smock’ because it is too bulky to make into a noose when whole and too tough to tear.

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This article was posted: Friday, May 20, 2011 at 7:06 am

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