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Washington DC Jail’s Suicide Proof “Safe Cell” Use Not Safe for Prisoners
Loaded on Oct. 1, 2021
by Kevin Bliss
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2021, page 56
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement,
Suicides.
Location:
District of Columbia.
by Kevin Bliss
Washington, D.C.’s jail safe cell use has been under scrutiny since 2013 when a rash of suicides prompted the jail to hire Lindsay Hayes, a nationally renowned jail and prison suicide prevention expert, to evaluate the jail’s operations and offer recommendations to make it more effective with ...
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