Many US jails fail to stop inmate suicides

Many US jails fail to stop inmate suicides

Many US jails fail to stop inmate suicides

By / Latest News / Tuesday, 18 June 2019 15:48

The last time Tanna Jo Fillmore talked with her mother, she was in a Utah jail, angry and desperate. She’d called every day that week, begging for help.

I need my medicine, she demanded.

At 25, Fillmore had long struggled with mental illness, but medication had stabilized her. Now, she was locked up on a probation violation, and she told her mother the jail nurse was refusing to provide her pills. In their final conversation, Fillmore threatened to kill herself. And on Thanksgiving 2016, a day after that threat, Fillmore hanged herself in the Duchesne County Jail.

 

Read more at Associated Press News.

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