Jailed IMF chief on suicide watch

Guards at New York City's massive Rikers Island jail complex are taking unusual precautions to make sure IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn does not come to any harm behind bars.

Jailed IMF chief on suicide watch

Guards at New York City's massive Rikers Island jail complex are taking unusual precautions to make sure IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn does not come to any harm behind bars.

The 62-year-old banker and diplomat has a whole jail wing to himself, a medical device to make sure he does not stop breathing during the night and guards checking him 24 hours a day to make sure he does not kill himself.

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