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| NY Deputies Work to Prevent Inmate Suicide |
| By buffalonews.com |
| Published: 03/18/2010 |
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The Buffalo News has overlooked two important issues in its coverage of the Department of Justice’s litigation regarding the Erie County Holding Center as it relates to the prisoner suicides. As the president and principal executive officer of the union that represents deputies and others at the Erie County Holding Center and at the Erie County Correctional Facility, I want to set the record straight. First, deputies are trained in suicide prevention, and they do their professional best in that regard. They have prevented many suicides and saved many prisoner lives. On those occasions when, despite the deputies’ best efforts, a prisoner does succeed in killing himself, it takes a profound emotional toll on the deputies present. It is hard for any human being to confront such a thing; don’t think for one minute that suicides do not deeply trouble deputies who confront them. They do. Deputies are not blind to prisoner needs, as some have portrayed them. Quite the contrary, they are caring human beings with families, as well as members of the community who, in serving the public, do the best they can in a difficult and stressful setting to care for incarcerated individuals while protecting the public’s safety. Read More. |
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