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MI: Prions Officials Probe Suicide Attempts at Women's Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Corrections officials probe suicide attempts at women's prison George Hunter / The Detroit News January 10. 2011 Ypsilanti ? The Michigan Department of Corrections has launched an investigation into a number of recent suicide attempts at the state's only women's prison. Corrections officials say they're working with mental health staff at the Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti to determine why there have been at least four attempts ? two successful ? in three months. "This is something we're taking very seriously," said department spokesman Russ Marlan. "Our deputy director of prisons was at the facility last week looking into it." The most recent attempt was Friday, when a 38-year-old inmate serving a life sentence for first-degree murder tried to hang herself in her cell, Marlan said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 11, 2011 (boomark / email).