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| Peer program to combat suicide |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 09/05/2006 |
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SAN QUENTIN, CA - Life inside San Quentin Prison was hardly easy, but Marvin Mutch never thought fellow inmate and longtime friend Robert Dubner would commit suicide. But on the morning of Feb. 17, 2005, Mutch had breakfast with Dubner, a popular inmate who played in a prison band. Dubner then returned to his cell and hung himself with a bed sheet. Mutch said he later realized that Dubner, who was serving a life sentence, was plagued by health and money troubles. "It was devastating on several levels," Mutch said. "He was within hours of his own death and I did not know it." Mutch, who was convicted of murder in 1974, was inspired to start a program to combat the stress and depression that contributes to high prison suicide rates. Mutch and eight other lifers in San Quentin's North Block were the first to graduate last week from the "Brother's Keeper" program, which designates inmates as peer crisis counselors. The program could have helped Dubner, who probably didn't want to confide in prison staff because he feared being placed inside a "suicide cell," which would lead to a psychiatric evaluation reviewed by the parole board, Mutch said...Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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