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| Reforms take aim at suicides |
| By San Jose Mercury News |
| Published: 05/29/2007 |
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FOLSOM, CA - Every 30 minutes, day and night, [COs] walk the tiers of the isolation unit at California State Prison, Sacramento, checking inmates to make sure they don't kill themselves. They have been doing so since October, when the prison system instituted a series of reforms to cut the high rate of inmate suicides. The steps were prompted by a federal judge's finding that a disproportionate number of suicides occurred in the isolation cells used to segregate inmates for disciplinary or other reasons. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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