juan: why is karl taylor dead?t's the question asked by the marshallll project in a major nw investigation out today that looks at the mental health crisis in u.s. prisons by diving crisis in u.s. prisons by diving deep into the story of karl taylor, an inmate at a maximum-security prison in the catskills of new york who was killed by guards in 2015. karl taylor was serving out a minimum 27-year sentence for a rape conviction when his life came to a sudden end at the sullivan correctional facility in april of 2015. the african-american prisoner had been diagnosed with delusional disorder and paranoid personality disorder when he was taken into custody in 1995. by april of 2015, taylor was housed in a special unit at sullivan for prisoners classified as mentally ill. he had spent nearly 10 years in solitary confinement. that's when he got into what would turn out to be a fatal altercation with a prison guard. amy: investigative reporter tom robbins looks not o only at karl taylylor's death, but also at hw people rep

it is interesting that border patrol claimed -- amy: why is karl taylor dead? a new marshall project investigation looks at how the nation's prison have become our mental wards and how one fatal case in new york shows where that can lead. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy n now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump called monday for mexico to deport central american asylum-seekers a day after u.s. border patrol officers fired tear gas on a group of migrants in tijuana as they attempted to cross the heavily militarized border near san diego. on monday, trump tweeted -- "mexico should move the flag waving migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries. do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are not coming into the u.s.a. we will close the border permanently if need be. congress, fund the wall!" mexico has asked the u.s. to investigate the use of tear gas on children. speaking from mississippi monday, trump defended the use