Jail suicides are becoming more common — 340 persons in state and federal prisons and 355 in local jails in 2019, based on data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
November 28, 2022
by Julie Whitehead, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, Mississippi Today November 28, 2022 Almost a year has passed since Harlene Blair of McHenry last saw her 21-year-old son Eli Marrero, alive. Now she wonders if she’ll ever find out why he died in law enforcement custody. Blair told MCIR she was told her son was found hanging from a light fixture in his solitary confinement cell in the Stone County Correctional Facility on Jan.
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