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New screening tool, vigilance lead to drop in Texas jail suicides

Texas county jails have seen an almost 60 percent decrease in suicides from last year. Texas county jails have seen a sharp decline in inmate suicides since they began using a revised mental health screening tool last December. Since December 2015, 14 county jail inmates have taken their own lives, a drop from a record 34 suicides between December 2014 and November 2015.

 

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