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Why do prisons in the us need to be more safe?

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Inmates are victims of abuse in prisons.

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Awful living conditions in prisons.

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How many people harm themselves in jail

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"Yet our prisons fail miserably at preparing people for a law-abiding and successful life after release. A long-term study of recidivism rates of people released from state prisons from 2005 to 2014 found that 68 percent were arrested within three years and 83 percent were arrested within nine years following their release." (Brennan Center For Justice)

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"Yet another homicide occurred when Timothy Duncan was killed at St. Clair in September 2014. The department’s inaction forced EJI to initiate court action to address the increasingly perilous situation at St. Clair." (EJI)

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"it is undeniable that the U.S. will continue to use incarceration as a sanction for criminal behavior at a much higher rate than in other Western countries, in part because of our higher rate of violent offenses." (Brookings)

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"The photos highlight various inhumane conditions including 1) a man defecating in his shorts due to a lack of bathroom facilities and then being left in his soiled clothes until another incarcerated person brought him new clothes[3]; 2) an incarcerated person locked in a cage shower for almost 24 hours[4]; and 3) incarcerated people dragging sick people to receive medical care" (Anderson).

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"Overcrowding is spurred by a myriad of endemic socioeconomic and political problems. But it almost always leads to the deprivation of access to basic facilities. As a result, seriously ill inmates die at alarming rates in prisons, as they couldn’t be seen by a medical doctor. And with limited food and medical budget, they don’t get the proper nutrition and medications to alleviate their existing health conditions" (Shawn).

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"Prisons tend to rinse away the parts that make us human. They continue to use solitary confinement as a mechanism for dealing with idleness and misconduct, despite studies showing that it creates or exacerbates mental illness" (Hopwood).

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"Why, then, are suicides up 22 percent from the previous mortality report, just two years prior? Why are deaths by drug and alcohol intoxication up a staggering 139 percent from the previous mortality report, just two years prior?"(by Leah Wang and Wendy Sawyer)

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recent research indicates that up to 15 percent of adults and up to 24 percent of young people engage in non-suicidal self-injury while in custody(Vera staff)

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"2182 acts of self-harm were committed, (103 potentially fatal and 7 fatal)" (R. MacDonald)