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MA: With 8th suicide, appeals for change in prison system

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

With 8th suicide, appeals for change in prison system State brings in a specialist By Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / July 16, 2010 Suicides in Massachusetts state prisons are occurring at a rate more than four times the national average this year, prompting advocates and inmates? relatives to call for an urgent response from state officials ? and spurring the Patrick administration yesterday to hire a suicide prevention specialist. With the discovery of an eighth inmate found hanging in his cell at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater yesterday morning, Massachusetts prisons have reached a suicide rate of about 71 per 100,000 inmates so far this year, more than quadruple the average annual national rate of 16 per 100,000 inmates reported by the US Bureau for Justice Statistics...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 20, 2010 (boomark / email).