An Algerian-American man arrested in a controversial plot that drew accusations of entrapment has attempted suicide after detailing abuse behind bars. Ahmed Ferhani pleaded guilty in 2012 to terrorism-related charges for discussing attacks on New York City synagogues with an undercover officer. But The Nation magazine reports the case against him was flimsy; Ferhani had a history of mental illness, and days before his arrest he told the officer he wanted to flip the guns they were going to buy for a profit. Ferhani wrote a series of letters, including some addressed to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, detailing a litany of threats, denial of food and water, and targeted violence while behind bars at Great Meadow Correctional Facility and Attica. He wrote to Lynch: “If taking my own life is the only way to expose the evils that are practiced daily by corrections officers then I will be glad to do it.” Ferhani is now in a medically induced coma after he attempted to hang himself at Attica last week.