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| On Guard raises awareness of correction officers' risk for PTSD, suicide |
| By telegram.com- Paula J. Owen |
| Published: 06/02/2014 |
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NORTHBRIDGE — Bryanna M. Mellen didn't understand how the rate of suicides and mental health issues among correction officers could be so high, and yet no one she talked to knew about it. When the 21-year-old University of Rhode Island senior first moved to Rhode Island from her hometown of Northbridge after her father's suicide, she said, she was heartbroken and looking for answers. She wanted to know why the loving, sometimes overprotective father her friends called "Daddy Mells" completely changed one day after years working as a correction officer at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center maximum security prison in Shirley. And why he drove to Webster Lake on Aug. 25, 2011, sat in his car and shot himself in the head with a shotgun. "When they told me the statistics on correction officers, I didn't even understand at first," she said at her mother's house Thursday after getting home from work. "How could the numbers be so shocking and no one knows them? I started telling people. I thought it was crazy nobody knows the numbers." Read More. |
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