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• Ohio deputies give life-saving CPR to inmate found hanging in cell

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  When deputies opened the cell, they found the man hanging from the rail of a window by a jail-issued bed sheet

• Emotional tools to build correctional officer resiliency

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  Officers must build an emotional tool belt to survive many of the troubling and traumatic experiences they are likely to encounter during their career

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• Preventing suicide in corrections

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  With inadequate leadership one of the primary stressors for correctional officers, leaders must do more to help officers deal with stress and prevent suicide

• Are you willing to take the call?

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  Psychological trauma is an ever-present danger for correctional officers, so we must create a culture where COs feel comfortable reaching out for help

• 3 ways to increase safety and reduce costs in your facility with a new eating utensil

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  Decrease the risk of inmates injuring themselves and others by adopting the paperboard EcoSecurity Utensil

• 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

• Auditor: Calif. women's inmate suicide rate too high

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  Suicides spiked at one prison after officials failed to properly prepare for the transfer of 400 of the state's most dangerous female inmates to the facility

• 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