Investigation Finds Suicide Crisis In U.S. Jails
Suicide is reported to be the leading cause of deaths in U.S. jails, peaking at 50 deaths per 100,000 inmates in 2014 (data is unavailable for the years after 2014 but there were more than 300 suicides in local jails reported in nine U.S. states from 2015 to 2017). Federal statistics for 2014 report[...]