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MA: Lawmakers say it's unlikely mental health cuts a factor in prison suicide of one woman and the attempted suicide of two others

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Lawmakers say it's unlikely mental health cuts a factor in prison suicide By Michael Morton/Daily News staff The MetroWest Daily News Posted Jul 28, 2009 FRAMINGHAM ? Area lawmakers who visited MCI-Framingham after an inmate's suicide said yesterday that mental health cuts did not appear to have played a role but that more prison programs are needed to develop useful skills and give hope. "There is very little opportunity and very little for them to look forward to after get ting out of there," said state Rep. Carolyn Dykema. Staff and administrators, she said, are doing the best they can with limited resources. Dykema, D-Holliston, and other legislators commended staff who cut down and saved two other women who attempted to hang themselves on July 19...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).