Title: Suicide and Suicide Methods in Prison: Inside Prison
Headings: Suicide Methods in Prison
Suicide Methods in Prison
Strangulation
Drug overdoses
Self-inflicted Wounds
Warning Signs

Content: In 2005, Greg Cornell jumped from the second-storey tier inside the St. Joseph County Jail in South Bend and died later at a local hospital. Typewriter cleaning fluid has been used in the past, and is particularly fatal by its liver-poisoning qualities. Of course, most any psychoactive drug that can produce toxicity can be fatal in high enough doses. However, high doses may be particularly difficult to obtain in prison. As a possible solution, inmates may administer heavily adulterated compounds, or combinations of drugs that have a synergistic effect, such as taking benzodiazepines (Diazepam) with hypnotics or sedatives (alcohol, barbiturates), depressing respiration and causing death. Cyanide has also been smuggled in to prison on occasion, providing a particularly quick and lethal method of self-execution. Self-inflicted Wounds
Self-inflicted wounds represent the third most common method of suicide. These most often include slashings, involving forks, bolts, knives, needles, razors, and bits of wire. Some swallow foreign objects. For example, one woman in Kingston Penitentiary broke a water glass against her cell wall, wrapped the broken pieces in damp toilet paper-ball, then swallowed it, resulting in fatal bowel perforations that would take 6 days to kill her.