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Alabama Prisoners Suffer Nation’s Highest Homicide, Suicide Rates

Loaded on Aug. 6, 2018 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News August, 2018, page 30
Filed under: Prison/Jail Murders, Overcrowding, Staffing, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides. Location: Alabama.

by David Reutter

Alabama’s prison murder rate, already the nation’s worst, is on the rise – along with an increase in assaults that do not end in fatalities, as well as prisoner suicides. Prison officials agree that the root problems – mainly overcrowding and understaffing – are correctable. But the ...

 

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