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NY: Greater specificity of suicide and assaults do not prove guards arguments for keeping prisons open

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison suicides, assaults increased in 2010 Feb. 22, 2011 Star Gazette Elmira, NY ALBANY -- The number of suicides at state prisons doubled last year and the number of inmate assaults rose 12 percent, according to data from the state Department of Correctional Services. Prison suicides rose from 10 to 20 between 2009 and 2010, state records show, while the number of inmate-on-inmate assaults increased from 602 to 675. But the number of attempted suicides dropped from 150 to 117, and the number of inmate accidents dropped 40 percent, from 536 to 324. Also, the number of other inmate deaths dropped from 150 to 102, the records show. The union representing corrections officers in New York said the statistics show the importance of well-staffed prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 24, 2011 (boomark / email).