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| The Prisoner Suicide Puzzle |
| By .theatlanticcities.com - Chris Opfer |
| Published: 08/16/2013 |
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Three inmates in Washington, D.C.'s city jail have killed themselves in the last two months. Add in a fourth, who took his own life in November, and that's a staggering figure for a lock-up system that hadn't previously seen a suicide in three years. A pair of reportedly self-inflicted deaths in June was enough to spark a comprehensive plan to address the situation, including immediate efforts to make it physically more difficult for the more than 1,700 inmates regularly housed in the city's central detention facility to hurt themselves behind bars. "One suicide is one suicide too many," says Dr. Forrest Daniels, health services administrator for the D.C. Department of Corrections. The corrections department announced that jail guards would double security check efforts, making rounds every 15 minutes, up from the previous 30-minute check system. Director Tom Faust also said that his staff would undertake a comprehensive review of the jail's suicide prevention protocols. Read More. |
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