The last days of Little Eddie: life and death in a US prison

A collaboration between a prison journalist and an investigative reporter reveals the suffering and death of a 49-year-old man serving life at a New Jersey prison

The banging and groans from the cell above had been going on for days. Kory McClary didn't know the name of the man, but his distress was unmistakable. McClary heard him banging on his toilet and his bunk continuously with only small breaks in between. He heard him battling guards who entered the cell. He heard him screaming in pain.

Then one morning, the sounds stopped. The prisoner had been moved to another cell. Two days later, McClary learned from a prison porter, the man was dead.