Tagged With "Bureau of Justice Statistics"

By Jason Fagone and Megan Cassidy, San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2019 The suicide rate inside California prisons, long one of the highest among the nation’s largest prison systems, jumped to a new peak in 2018 and remains elevated in 2019, despite decades of effort by federal courts and psychiatric experts to fix a system they say is broken and putting lives at risk, a Chronicle investigation has found. Last year, an average of three California inmates killed themselves each month...

Presumably this will be televised or videotaped for Internet viewing. What are the details on that?

Great question! I just reached out to UCB and requested the info - hope to hear back soon. Thanks for the nudge! Karen