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| Gaps remain in jail suicide prevention |
| By greenbaypressgazette.com - Tegan Wendland, Rory Linnane and Kate Golden |
| Published: 12/24/2012 |
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Since 2003, 52 Wisconsin county jail inmates have taken their own lives. State Department of Corrections jail inspector Nancy Thelen said that generally, Wisconsin’s 72 county-run jails are doing “a very good job with their suicide watches.” But a Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism review of the counties’ most recent jail inspection records found that at least one-third of them had been cited for problems with their suicide prevention efforts. Even the La Crosse County Jail, which an inspector described as “a leader and model for other jails throughout the state and nation,” was not properly documenting actions relating to potentially suicidal inmates, the report found. Read More. |
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