Jail suicide figure equals record
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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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Over 4,000 children under 14 have attempted to take their own lives in the past year, claim new figures
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An investigation into three apparent suicides at the Guantanamo Bay prison has found that other detainees may have helped the men hang themselves or were planning to kill themselves too.
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The United States, which has the most prisoners of any country in the world, last year recorded the largest increase in the number of people in prisons and jails since 2000, the Justice Department reported on Wednesday.
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Shortly after his third suicide attempt, serial killer Michael Ross wrote that life on death row was increasingly unbearable. He described the isolation of sitting in his cell 23 hours a day for years amid the endless slamming of metal and dark thoughts of his own horrific crimes and his impending execution.
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More than an inmate a day died violently in Venezuela's crowded prisons last year, as riots and weapons trafficking ran rampant behind bars, a human rights group said in an annual report.
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On Sept. 22, a 34-year-old mother of two posted an Internet notice looking for companions for a group suicide. On Oct. 5, the police found her and three other women barely
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The number of prisoners in Scotland's jails reaches a record high, according to new figures.
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IONE, California  - Convicted murderer Greg Rollo knows the brutality of life behind bars after 31 years in a prison. But he says life has grown much worse since he was moved to a triple-bunk bed in an open gym with 199 others.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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Calling the crime one of the &quot;most deplorable I&#39;ve witnessed in 15 years on the bench,&quot; US District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez sentenced a local health-care worker yesterday to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a cancer patient and running
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 18--Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove will perform an autopsy today on an inmate that died Sunday at the Harrison County jail.   Lee Demond Smith, 21, of Biloxi, was taken by ambulance to Garden Park Medical Center shortly after 1 p.m.
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The number of prisoners in England and Wales reaches a record high of 81,135 inmates.
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The number of convicts imprisoned with death sentences dropped in 2003, which is helping to provoke the third straight annual decline in the nation's death row population, according to data released Sunday.
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Media & professional: Number of inmates killing themselves is on the rise for first time since 2002, says chief inspector.
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Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.
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The number of people detained in secure psychiatric wards in England has reached a record high, figures show.