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: Inmates have also used paper clips to slash their wrists, but razor blades, which are preferred, are often accessible enough. Others have cut their throats, necks, and stomachs, but a few have also slashed their thighs. Sometimes, victims slash combinations of these body sites simultaneously, or combine slashings will drug overdoses, ensuring a death if one or the other methods fails. Slashings are not unheard of in condemned convicts just before their execution date. A more chilling case of suicide was that of Thai baby-slasher Sawai Palaphol, who repeatedly bashed his head into the prison wall until he collapsed, dead. One pathologically suicidal woman in a Warm Springs mental hospital tried to commit suicide by slashing her arms with a broken light bulb, by swallowing seven AA batteries and two razor blades, and by eating two-thirds of a tennis shoe, according to the Great Falls Tribune. Most prison suicides remain private and acceptably ignored by fellow inmates and correctional staff, unless the victim is high-profile, or a so-called " bug ." Media reports are similarly disinterested, and usually report the suicide in a pragmatic