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Suicide raises questions about safety of Mass. inmates

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By Shelley Murphy
Globe Staff / August 16, 2010

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Philip Markoff’s apparent suicide yesterday in a Boston jail comes at a time of increasing scrutiny on suicides in the state’s prisons and occurred just weeks after the federal immigration agency faulted Suffolk County jail officials on their failure to properly care for an immigrant detainee who died. (Full article: 872 words)

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