Sharp increase in prison suicides
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The number of inmates killing themselves in prisons rose significantly in 2007, figures show.
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Homicide figures released by the Scottish Government reveal a rise in deaths in the last year.
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Physicians -- especially female physicians -- face a higher suicide risk than the general population, according to a new report.
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Military officials said Monday that eight prisoner deaths in Afghanistan have been investigated since mid-2002, a higher number than previously reported.
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Attacks on female prison officers have more than doubled in the past seven years, official figures obtained by Guardian Unlimited reveal.
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A committee of MPs and peers warns the numbers of deaths in custody have reached "shocking levels".
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A prison guard named in a note left by two inmates who escaped from a New Jersey jail commits suicide.
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Aborigines are 13 times more likely  than other Australians to go to prison, with poverty,  unemployment and poor education behind a sharp jump in the  number of indigenous jailings, a report said on Friday.
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Women inmates in New Jersey's prisons are twice as likely to be raped and nearly six times more likely to be otherwise sexually abused by other inmates than their male counterparts, according to a new federal study.
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Too many people with mental health problems end up in prison when they need specialist care, a report says.
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Aborigines are 13 times more likely than other Australians to go to prison, with poverty, unemployment and poor education behind a sharp jump in the number of indigenous jailings, a report said on Friday.
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The number of people in the UK dying from alcohol-related problems is continuing to rise, latest figures show.
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Two prison guards were fatally shot while on duty in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide that might have stemmed from a domestic dispute.
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Japan's prisons are at their most crowded in years, a result of rising crime and longer sentences.
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Prison doctors say the public is at risk from drug addicts and mentally ill offenders being released from jail without treatment.
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Suicide attempts among teenage girls in Norway rose by 30 percent between 1992 and 2002, a study revealed, an increase attributed to rising substance abuse and young girls' growing concerns about body image.
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New generation of violent inmates blamed for growth of gang culture in prisons