String Of ‘Devastating’ Suicides In Hawaiʻi Prisons Continues

Michele Deitch, director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas, said based on her experience “that is unusual. Natural deaths in custody usually account for the vast majority of deaths.”

She also said the sizable number of suicides in Hawaiʻi prisons is unusual because suicide is usually far more common in jails than in prisons.