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  2. Suicide legislation - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Prisoner suicide - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Mentally ill people in United States jails and prisons

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    As for the gender, age, and racial demographics of mentally ill offenders, the 2017 Bureau of Justice Statistics report found that female inmates, when compared to male inmates, had statistically significantly higher rates of serious psychological distress (20.5% of female prisoners and 32.3% of female jail inmates had serious psychological ...

  5. Inmate suicide at Erie County Prison leads to confidential ...

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    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.

  6. Florida inmate’s shocking chainsaw suicide is a wake-up call ...

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    There’s hope that Miami-Dade can serve as a model for the rest of the country in breaking the terrible cycle that has become routine in so many jails: mental illness followed by arrest and ...

  7. Santa Fe County faces lawsuit over suicide death at jail - AOL

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    The lawsuit was filed Sept. 12, the day another suicide death was reported at the jail. County officials said 50-year-old George Montoya was found dead in his cell that morning after a "self-harm ...

  8. Maine State Prison - Wikipedia

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    In the prison's early years, the majority of prisoners died of tuberculosis before completing their sentences. [3] In 1923 the prison was destroyed by a fire in which many inmates died. The old prison was replaced by a facility with two cellblocks. The cells were modeled on the Auburn System. There were long narrow hallways with very small ...

  9. Richard Steeves - Wikipedia

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    In 1984, Steeves was paroled from prison and was sent to live with his brother in Unity, Maine. [10] In April 1985, Steeves broke into the mobile home of 69-year-old gift shop owner Russell F. Bailey in Wells. He attacked Bailey and struck him in the head with a blunt instrument, likely a club, multiple times in the head, killing him.