Ariel Castro

Ohio's prison system is reviewing how Castro managed to hang himself with a bedsheet while in protective custody.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The three victims of Ariel Castro are declining to comment on the news that the man who held them prisoner in his home for a decade has taken his own life in an Ohio prison. But prosecutor Tim McGinty says it shows that Castro "couldn't take, for even a month, a small portion of what he had dished out for more than a decade...

The Cleveland man who pleaded guilty to 937 charges related to his kidnapping and imprisonment of three women between 2002 and May of this year was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole.

The handwritten note by Michelle Knight thanks members of the Cleveland Police Department's Second District for collecting gifts people have given Knight and the two other women imprisoned by Castro for a decade.

Everyone involved in the video from the attorneys to the public relations firm are donating their services.

While the decade-long ordeal of being held captive and abused is now over for Cleveland women Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus, they now face the reality of their recovery, which therapists say will be long and difficult.