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Erie Co. NY: Small County Jail in Upstate New York Has Big Problem With Suicides

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Small Upstate New York County Jail Has Big Problem With Suicides by Mosi Secret, ProPublica - March 29, 2010 9:33 am EDT At the 680-bed Erie County Holding Facility, a small jail on the shores of Lake Erie in Buffalo, N.Y., six inmates have committed suicide in the past five years, as many as at Rikers Island, the sprawling New York City jail that typically houses about 14,000 inmates. In 2007, an Erie inmate killed himself by diving off a 15-foot railing in full view of sheriff's deputies. That same year, an inmate took his life after officials removed him from 24-hour suicide watch and put him with the other inmates. In 2008, two detainees used bed sheets to hang themselves from air vents, raising to 15 the number of inmates who had committed suicide this way, or tried to, since 2002...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 30, 2010 (boomark / email).