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Report Details Suicide and Homicide Rates in Prisons, Jails
Loaded on May 15, 2006
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2006, page 18
Even though suicide and homicide rates among prisoners have been falling since the 1980s, thousands still die in U.S. prisons and jails every year. During 2001 and 2002, 5,824 state prisoners died in custody, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report released in August 2005. Another 2,843 prisoners …
Filed under:
Reviews,
HIV/AIDS,
Crime/Demographics,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Statistics/Trends,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Suicides.
Location:
United States of America.
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