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| D.C. jail unequipped to protect suicidal inmates, has suicide rate three times national average |
| By blog.georgetownvoice.com - Ryan Greene |
| Published: 11/21/2013 |
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Earlier this November, Corrections Director Thomas Faust released a report on how the District treats its suicidal inmates. The report finds the practices of the city’s Central Detention Facility to be inadequate for preventing suicides and concludes that some practices only deepen suicidal inmates’ problems. The Facility has had four suicides in the past 12 months, which is three times the national average. The report, conducted by expert Lindsay Hayes this past August, was released only this month because the District’s Department of Corrections wanted to plan solutions to the problem before making it public knowledge. Faust plans to increase corrections officers’ training and spend $600,000 to remove objects that could be used in suicides, like towel bars and clothing hooks, from cells, according to the Post. Read More. |
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