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| Suicide attempts rare, but taken seriously |
| By GazatteXtra |
| Published: 03/19/2008 |
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WISCONSIN - If an inmate at the Rock County Jail threatens or attempts suicide, Skip Drew or one of his colleagues at Rock County Crisis Intervention gets the call. Inmates serious about suicide typically try to hang themselves with their sheets as they throw themselves off upper tiers in the jail. Most often, other inmates save them, Drew said. “There aren’t that many suicide attempts (at the jail), but many inmates express suicidal thoughts,” he said. “Whenever these are thrown out, we and the jail staff must take it seriously and err on the side of caution.” Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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