{"id":2177166,"date":"2024-02-15T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-federal-prisons-failed-to-stop-almost-200-deaths-by-suicide-doj-watchdog-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T18:34:09","slug":"u-s-federal-prisons-failed-to-stop-almost-200-deaths-by-suicide-doj-watchdog-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-federal-prisons-failed-to-stop-almost-200-deaths-by-suicide-doj-watchdog-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Watchdog: Nearly 200 Suicides Unchecked in U.S. Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-federal-prisons-failed-to-stop-almost-200-deaths-by-suicide-doj-watchdog-finds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2177166&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by David McNew\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/james-meyers\/\">James Meyers<\/a><br \/>10:16 AM \u2013 Thursday, February 15,\u2064 2024<\/p>\n<p>According to a Justice Department watchdog insider, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) failed to prevent the deaths \u200bof\u2063 187 inmates who\u2062 died by suicide over an eight-year span, according to a \u2062released report. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Inspector General Michael Horowitz blamed the deaths on BOP\u2019s \u201coperational and managerial deficiencies\u201d which included staffing problems that left inmates without proper care and supervision. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cIt is critical that the BOP address \u2062these challenges so it can operate safe and humane facilities and protect inmates in its custody and care,\u201d \u2062Horowitz said, announcing the report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The report revealed by Horowitz \u200dis\u200b based on a review\u200c of 344 inmates\u2019 deaths from\u2064 the 2014 \u200bto 2021 fiscal years, which showed 187 of them were death by suicide. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the report\u2019s main\u2064 focus was on deaths that \u200bwere likely\u2063 preventable, instead of\u200b deaths that were related to medical care. <\/p>\n<p>The data showed \u201cnumerous instances of potentially inappropriate\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-pediatric-gender-clinics-have-in-common-with-opioid-pill-mills\/\" title=\"What Pediatric Gender Clinics Have In Common With Opioid \u2018Pill Mills\u2019\">mental health assessments<\/a> for inmates who later died by suicide. Furthermore, more\u2062 than half of the\u2064 inmates that died by\u200d suicide were\u200b in \u2063\u201csingle-cell confinement,\u201d which\u200d is known as solitary confinement,\u200d when they eventually died by suicide. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cAny unexpected death of an\u2062 adult in custody is \u200dtragic \u2026 we have already taken many steps to mitigate these deaths,\u201d Colette Peters, BOP director, wrote in a response to the report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The review began \u200din 2020 after Congress requested to investigate inmate homicides and suicides. It was prompted by the media-reported deaths of Jeffrey Epstein and Whitey Bulger. <\/p>\n<p>Prisons run by the BOP \u2062are required to run mock \u200bsuicide drills \u200dthree \u200dtimes a year. However, 67\u200b of the BOP\u2019s\u200c 194 facilities \u201cwere unable to provide evidence that they\u200c conducted a \u200dsingle mock suicide drill from \u200c2018 through 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking\u2062 news blasts directly \u200dto your inbox for free.\u2062 Subscribe \u200dhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Kim\u200c Klacik<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with\u2062 Amy Peikoff<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Steve Friend<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with\u2063 Rep. Tim Burchett<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Shares of smaller \u200bAI firms rallied after Nvidia disclosed stake in them.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Nvidia briefly displaced Alphabet as the U.S. stock market\u2019s \u2062third most valuable company.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Hackers from Russia,\u200c China,\u200c and Iran have been using \u2062tools from OpenAI to hone their skills and trick their targets.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Nvidia\u00a0briefly surpassed Amazon.com Inc\u00a0in market capitalization \u2064on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> What alternatives\u2062 to solitary confinement can be explored \u200cin order to reduce the high number of suicides among inmates in this form of confinement?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Failure to\u200d prevent inmate deaths by suicide is\u2064 a grave concern and raises serious questions about\u2064 the effectiveness \u2063of the\u200c Federal Bureau \u2063of\u2064 Prisons (BOP). According to a\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-nasa-administrator-makes-stunning-claim-about-alien-life\/\" title=\"Former NASA Administrator Makes Stunning Claim About Alien Life\">recently released report<\/a> by \u2063the Justice \u200dDepartment watchdog, 187 inmates \u200ddied by suicide\u2064 over an eight-year period, highlighting the operational and managerial deficiencies within the BOP.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector\u2064 General Michael Horowitz, \u200din presenting the report,\u2064 emphasized \u200dthe need for the\u2063 BOP\u2063 to address these \u200bchallenges in order to\u200b ensure the safety and \u2062humane treatment of inmates under its custody and\u2063 care. The report was \u200cbased\u2062 on a comprehensive\u200d review of 344 inmate \u200ddeaths from 2014 to 2021, with 187 of them being classified as suicide.<\/p>\n<p>One troubling finding of the report was the number of preventable deaths. \u2064The focus was not solely on deaths related to medical care but specifically on \u2062deaths that could\u200c have been prevented.\u2063 The \u200creport revealed numerous instances of potentially inappropriate mental \u200chealth assessments for inmates\u2064 who later died by suicide. This highlights the\u2063 importance of identifying\u200d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-great-jimmie-johnson-loses-3-family-members-in-bone-chilling-tragedy\/\" title=\"Jimmie Johnson, NASCAR legend, loses 3 family members in tragic incident.\">addressing mental health issues<\/a>\u200c within the prison system to prevent such tragic incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Another \u2064concerning aspect revealed \u200bby the report is the \u200bhigh number of suicides among inmates in\u200b solitary confinement,\u2062 or \u2063what is commonly referred to\u200c as &#8220;single-cell \u200cconfinement.&#8221; More than half of \u2062the \u200dinmates who died by suicide \u2062were in\u200c solitary confinement \u200dat the time of their deaths. This calls into \u200cquestion the effectiveness of\u2063 solitary confinement \u2064as a punitive measure and raises concerns\u2063 about the mental\u200d well-being of inmates subjected to \u200dsuch conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The BOP must take immediate \u2062action\u2064 to address these deficiencies\u2064 and \u200cimplement necessary \u2062reforms. This \u200dshould include addressing staffing problems to ensure that inmates receive\u200c proper care and \u2064supervision. \u200bMental health assessments\u2064 should be conducted thoroughly \u200band appropriately, with a focus on identifying individuals \u2063at \u200drisk of self-harm.\u2062 Additionally, alternatives \u200cto solitary confinement should be explored, as it is clear that it has the potential to exacerbate \u200dmental\u2064 health issues and increase \u200dthe risk of suicide.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion,\u2064 the failure to prevent inmate deaths by suicide within the \u200cFederal Bureau of \u2063Prisons is a serious issue that demands immediate attention.\u200d The recently \u200breleased report highlights\u2063 the operational and\u2062 managerial deficiencies that have contributed to these tragic incidents. It is essential for the BOP to prioritize the safety and well-being of inmates and address these challenges. By implementing necessary reforms and \u2064focusing\u2064 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">mental health care<\/a> \u2064within the prison system, the BOP can\u2062 strive to\u2063 operate safe and humane facilities and protect\u200d the individuals under its custody and care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Justice Department insider, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) failed to prevent 187 inmate suicides over eight years, as per a released report. 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