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MA: Another suicide raises questions about safety of MA prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Suicide raises questions about safety of Mass. inmates By Shelley Murphy Boston Globe Staff / August 16, 2010 Philip Markoff?s apparent suicide yesterday in a Boston jail comes at a time of increasing scrutiny on suicides in the state?s prisons and occurred just weeks after the federal immigration agency faulted Suffolk County jail officials on their failure to properly care for an immigrant detainee who died. The death of an inmate who had been placed on suicide watch last year because of a previous attempt to kill himself is also expected to raise questions about precautions taken by Suffolk County jail officials. They refused yesterday to release details of Markoff?s death or to say how frequently they were monitoring him, but they did say he was not on suicide watch at the time of his death...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 16, 2010 (boomark / email).