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• Tier Talk Podcast: The complexity of officer suicide and what to do in the aftermath

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  When an officer takes their own life it creates a ripple effect

• Suicide prevention comes out of the public safety shadows

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  As public safety professionals, we tend to do a really great job of helping and comforting others in times of need

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  The Connected Jail: How to increase efficiency and safety from intake to release

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  With the right technology, command staff can enhance officer and inmate safety and facility security despite understaffing and tight budgets.

• Suicide among COs: It's time for an open discussion

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  Discussion of suicide within the profession was a taboo topic because corrections employees were not supposed to appear emotionally vulnerable or fragile

• Law program probes Calif. jail over attempted suicide

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  A civil rights law clinic is looking into the events surrounding an attempted suicide at the Yuba County Jail on Oct. 26

• CO credited with preventing mixed-martial arts fighter's suicide

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  A corrections officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is being credited with preventing the suicide of Jonathan Koppenhaver

• Suicide prevention: We have to talk to each other

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  You can know suicide prevention left and right, and still not see the suicide of a loved one coming; this is why we have to dig deeper in conversations

• MDC corrections officer saves inmate who tries to hang self

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  An MDC inmate is thanking the staff of the prison who was present at the time of his suicide attempt.

• Inmate commits suicide in Ill. jail

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  Bradley C. Scarpi was moved into protective custody at his request on Saturday. A few hours later, he was found dead

• York County Prison board members approve policy change for suicide prevention

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  2011 standards allow for close observation at staggered intervals