Inmate suicide cases 'increasing'
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Fifty prisoners have killed themselves in jail so far this year, compared to 67 for the whole of 2006.
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Inmates are reaching the end of their sentences but cannot be freed because they haven't attended treatment programmes.
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The number of people charged with racially aggravated offences rose by 28% last year, figures show.
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Health officials reported that the rate of suicide in Americans ages 10 to 24 increased 8 percent from 2003 to 2004, the largest jump in more than 15 years.
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Four young men from the same rural Missouri county have committed suicide by hanging themselves in a similar fashion in the past five months, and authorities are investigating whether the cases are related.
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After two decades of massive growth, the U.S. prison population began to level off in the first six years of this century, according to 2006 census statistics released today.
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The Chief Inspector of Prisons says improvements to the system are under threat because of overcrowding.
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The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans has reached its highest point in at least 25 years, a new government report said Thursday.
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Homicide figures released by the Scottish Government reveal a rise in deaths in the last year.
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Suicides among children and young  adults rose by an alarming 8 percent in 2004, the largest rise  in 15 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention reported on Thursday.
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Hundreds of young people with  mental health problems in New Jersey are being held for long  periods at detention centers for young offenders where they are  at risk of suicide, according to a new report.
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Maximum-security confinement may be pushing already unstable criminals -- "the worst of the worst" -- toward mental breakdown. And that's not good for any of us
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A suicide takes place somewhere around the world every 40 seconds, or nearly one million a year, and the rate looks set to surge over the next two decades, international health experts said on Wednesday.
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New Orleans' suicide rate appears to have gone up in the first six months after Hurricane Katrina evacuees were allowed back home, but the increase could be due to chance instead of post-storm depression, a study by Louisiana's epidemiologist says.
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Home Office figures show 95 jail inmates in England and Wales killed themselves this year, matching 2002's record.
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The number of violent criminals freed under  supervision who are charged with a further offence has increased by 36%.
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The number of inmates killing themselves in prisons in England and Wales rose significantly in 2007, figures show.