Title: Correctional officer suicides in 2019 tied for most in single year: Union president - ABC News
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Correctional officer suicides in 2019 tied for most in single year: Union president
News headlines today: Dec. 23, 2020

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Correctional officer suicides in 2019 tied for most in single year: Union president
Suicides among different branches of law enforcement are on the rise. By Luke Barr and Pierre Thomas
October 17, 2019, 9:48 AM
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Deaths by suicide among correctional officers so far in 2019 have tied the highest total ever recorded, according to the head of their union. Year to date, 13 cases have been documented. "We're on course for an all-time record of suicide of staff," Shane Fausey, the new CPL-33 Correctional Officers Union president, told ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas. Bureau of Prisons union officials for years have been calling for an increase in staffing to match skyrocketing incarceration rates. (MORE: