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Wyoming Jail Must Disclose Suicide Prevention Critique
Loaded on April 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2003, page 12
The Wyoming Supreme Court has held that the Wyoming Public Records Act (WPRA) requires that state's jails to disclose to the press reports evaluating jail suicide prevention procedures. In 1998, prisoner suicide attempts increased in the county jail in Laramie, Wyoming. Laramie County Sheriff, Roger Allsop, requested an evaluation of ...
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