“It is a failure of humanity,” says a man whose mom died behind bars. AP/CNSmd investigate why the rate of suicides in U.S. jails is so high.
An exclusive 50-state reporting effort to collect recent statistics found more than 300 suicides in local jails from 2015 to 2017 — in just nine states. The others did not provide numbers or offered incomplete data, an issue prompting some legislatures to consider bills that would require jails to provide better information about those dying behind bars.
“I think there is a cultural dismissiveness toward both the signs that help us predict suicide — and toward the steps necessary to prevent them,” she adds. “When they see someone who looks like they’re struggling,” he says, “they don’t say, ‘Let me step in. This is someone’s mom.’... They think this is a woman on drugs doing whatever she’s going to do, she’ll shut up.”
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