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| Atlantic City Jail Suicides Raise Issues |
| By pressofatlanticcity.com |
| Published: 08/10/2010 |
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If 24-year-old Laura Kaniper's hanging death in June is ruled a suicide, it will be the sixth since 2005 at the Atlantic County Jail in Mays Landing, the same number as at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton. The prison has about 1,900 inmates, the jail has about 800. The New Jersey Department of Corrections, or DOC, has reported 15 suicides in all 15 state prisons since 2005 - two more in total than the 13 suicides in just the four local jails in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Ocean counties during that same period. The situation is far from unique. Inmate suicide is the single leading cause of unnatural deaths in local jails, according to a federal Bureau of Justice Statistics national report released in July. Inmates in local jails - either county facilities or municipal facilities in larger cities - are usually those charged with crimes but awaiting trial. Between 2000 and 2007, suicides accounted for 29 percent of all local jail deaths. Read More. |
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