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Causing suicide or a suicide attempt by a person because of the systematic maltreatment or other systematic misbehaviors which seriously affect the dignity [of the person], committed by another person under whose material dependence or any other dependence the former person is subject, is punishable by a fine or up to five years of imprisonment.
Signs that a prisoner may be at risk of suicide include giving away valued possessions, speaking as if they are not going to be around much longer even though they are not scheduled for release, withdrawing, becoming acutely intoxicated, having a recent history of severe addiction, being threatened or assaulted by other prisoners, having a history of psychiatric hospitalizations or suicide ...
According to a report released on Tuesday, 111 sick residents chose to humanely end their lives over the first six months since the bill was passed.
Assisted suicide is legal in ten jurisdictions in the US: Washington, D.C. [2] and the states of California, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, Maine, [3] New Jersey, [4] Hawaii, and Washington. [5] The status of assisted suicide is disputed in Montana, though currently authorized per the Montana Supreme Court's ruling in Baxter v.
The family of a man who killed himself while being held in the Ocean County Jail was awarded a $1.55 million verdict Wednesday in a suit claiming jail administrators failed to follow their own ...
Matthew Creaton, a troubled 35-year-old from Cranesville, was under the public's care when he took his own life as an inmate at the Erie County Prison more than three years ago.
This is a list of longest prison sentences served by a single person, worldwide, without a period of freedom followed by a second conviction. These cases rarely coincide with the longest prison sentences given, because some countries have laws that do not allow sentences without parole or for convicts to remain in prison beyond a given number of years (regardless of their original conviction).
William James Charles Brooks, a former detention deputy at the Marion County Jail, tried to commit suicide. The incident report has been released