[rdouble]

Aaron Swartz's situation was not like any of those things. His case was very similar to Bradley Manning's and Manning did not commit suicide. It's pretty clear from his blog and behavior that Aaron Swartz had untreated bipolar disorder which sadly has extremely high suicide rates.

[katbyte]

i was under the impression that Bradley Manning is under constant supervision in a SHU or something such that it would be almost impossible for him to kill himself.

[mpyne]

For a some period of time at the beginning, yes. I think it was 7 months or so that he spent in alternating variants of suicide watch or prevention of injury status.

But for most of his pre-trial confinement he has been kept in the general population, and hasn't killed himself. Even after he plead guilty to charges that would have guaranteed him a sentence far worse than what Swartz would have received (even if Swartz had gone for a trial), Manning didn't kill himself.