Sharp increase in prison suicides
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The number of inmates killing themselves in prisons in England and Wales rose significantly in 2007, figures show.
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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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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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A U.S. report shows a rise in youth suicides after a decade of decline, with no clear explanation
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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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Convicted murderers are being sentenced to death half as often as they were five years ago, and the population of death row is declining as a result, an anti-capital punishment information organization reported Tuesday.
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83 high-risk offenders released from prison have been charged with a further serious offence, figures show.
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales has risen to a record high of almost 81,000, the Prison Service said today.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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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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The suicide rate among 45-to-54-year-olds increased nearly 20 percent from 1999 to 2004, the latest year studied.
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The number of people detained in secure psychiatric wards in England has reached a record high, figures show.
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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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The number of people charged with racially aggravated offences rose by 28% last year, figures show.
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New data suggests that the prisoners affected by recent changes to drug sentencing laws are very different from the general prison population.
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The suicide rate among preteen and young teen girls spiked dramatically in a disturbing shift that federal health officials say they can't fully explain.
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Roughly 900,000 tubes containing a poison have turned up in hospitals for the mentally ill, prisons, juvenile detention centers and even some hospitals.