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MA: Another suicide by a prisoner

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Each suicide by a prisoner gets treated as if it were aberrant act, not as a result of the prison culture of humiliation and hopelessness. In this instance, Leslie Walker blames the suicide of Michael Caputo on a cut-back of DOC "mental health" workers, as if they might be hired to make a difference in the life of someone with a life sentence. True, there are many more people locked in inhumane conditions who have serious mental illness, but it is the system as a whole---every aspect of it---that creates the conditions for suicide. Lois Inmate suicide brings criticism about health services - Advocacy group points to recent state cutbacks By John M. Guilfoil Globe Staff / March 31, A prisoners advocacy group voiced concerns yesterday over reductions in mental health services after a second inmate in less than two weeks took his own life at a Massachusetts prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 04, 2010 (boomark / email).