Title: Correctional officer suicides in 2019 tied for most in single year: Union president - ABC News
Headings: Correctional officer suicides in 2019 tied for most in single year: Union president
Correctional officer suicides in 2019 tied for most in single year: Union president
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Content: Law enforcement suicides up 24 percent in 2019, advocacy group says)
Fausey said insufficient staffing and other job-related stressors could be contributing to the suicides, but the Bureau of Prisons doesn't have hard data on that. "Unfortunately, the staffing crisis has lead into other issues for employees of the Bureau of Prisons," Fausey said. " There's a human factor to this staffing crisis." NY Daily News via Getty Images, FILE
The Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., is pictured from above, March 22, 2004. According to a University of California, Berkeley Study in 2018, correctional officers are at a high risk for depression, PTSD and suicide. The study, which focuses on California state prisons, and a survey conducted in 2017 showed that 10% of correctional officers said they'd considered taking their own life. Among adults in the U.S., about 3% reported having suicidal thoughts, while retired correctional officers, according to the study, reported a rate of 31%. About 1 in 3 are dealing with PTSD, according to the study, as about half of the correctional officers surveyed reporting that the don't feel safe at work. Depression also affects about one-third of the officers. (MORE: '