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| Hundreds of Arizona prison inmates have used razors, drugs in attempted suicides |
| By azcapitoltimes.com |
| Published: 04/04/2016 |
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Nearly 500 convicts in Arizona’s prison system attempted suicide in 2015, despite efforts to push for better mental health treatment and a legal settlement ordering the Department of Corrections to improve psychiatric services. Two inmates, one from the Florence prison and another from the Tucson facility, recently died in the span of three weeks, making a total of four deaths so far since November. David Fathi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project in Washington, D.C., and co-lead counsel on a federal lawsuit against DOC, believes the rising number of suicide attempts last year – there were 379 attempts in 2014 – is “definitely cause for concern because a certain number of suicide attempts are successful and lead to death.” The most common forms of self-harm were cutting at 197, overdose at 146, and blunt force with 93 attempts. In 2015, six died as a result,according to a recent DOC report on inmate self-harm, assaults and deaths. Read More. |
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