My husband, Darian Hall, has survived trauma inside the Missouri Department of Corrections that no human being should ever endure. In October 2022, he was kept in extreme isolation at Potosi Correctional Center (PCC) despite long‑documented mental‑health diagnoses including bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, PTSD, psychotic disorder, ADHD, and severe anxiety.

Instead of receiving treatment, Darian was placed in segregation the day he arrived — and kept there for over a year. Every one of his suicide attempts at PCC happened while he was in isolation.

Within weeks of arriving:

• Nov 5, 2022: He cut his throat and needed 12 stitches.
• Nov 29, 2022: He attempted to hang himself; staff had to perform CPR until EMS arrived.
• Dec 8, 2022: During a mental‑health crisis, officers pepper‑sprayed him, taunted him, and then denied him a shower for five days, leaving chemicals burning his skin.

Despite a memo acknowledging he had “several serious suicide attempts,” PCC kept him in the same conditions that were causing the harm.

In June 2023, staff placed him in a cell with a broken light fixture with a sharp metal edge. Darian begged to be moved because he knew it was dangerous for someone with his mental‑health history. Staff agreed — but the supervisor denied the move. Days later, Darian swallowed razor blades. That same supervisor cheered when he heard.

Even after surgery, Darian was met with more violence. When he returned from the hospital, barely able to stand, an officer demanded he strip for suicide‑watch. Darian explained he physically couldn’t. The officer pepper‑sprayed him, forced him upright, and ripped open the sutures in his neck, sending him back to the hospital.

The segregation unit itself is inhumane: constant screaming, banging, floors flooded with moldy water, urine, and feces, pepper spray lingering in the air, no privacy for therapy, and in some cells, no way to call for help. Mental‑health staff repeatedly told administrators that segregation was harming him. Darian repeatedly begged to be moved. Nothing changed.

After he filed his federal lawsuit, the retaliation escalated. He was threatened, isolated further, and placed in a cell with no window, no sprinkler, no call button — only a brick wall.

Darian is not a danger. He is a man with severe mental‑health needs who has been denied treatment and met with force, punishment, and neglect. He has survived several suicide attempts in PCC custody — four of them after filing his lawsuit.

I am asking for your signature because Darian cannot survive this environment much longer.
He needs safety, treatment, and a chance to heal — not another year in a concrete box.

Please help bring attention to what is happening behind these walls.
Please help bring my husband home before this system takes him from me forever.