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Article: Lake County Jail: Why the suicides?\

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May 20, 2007
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A federal report on curbing suicides at the Lake County Jail wasn't shown to the man in charge of screening inmates for suicide risk.(PHOTO - Color) (POST-TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO)

Months after federal officials came to Lake County to study a disturbing number of inmate suicides, officials still haven't implemented findings of a preventative report. Meanwhile, the deaths continue.

It's not simply a matter of an angry population under strain.

Since 2005, more inmates have killed themselves in Crown Point, than in Chicago's Cook County Jail -- a place with 10 times the prisoner population.

Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez acknowledges ...

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