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Suicide death of 60-year-old prisoner at Behavioral Assessment Unit in Norfolk prison is adding to concerns about highly structured units in Massachusetts prisons.

The allegations of excessive use of force date back to June, when inmates were transferred to Souza from a solitary confinement unit at another state prison that was shut down in response to a lawsuit filed last year.

"Weve had a staffing issue for 10 years, but nothing to this magnitude," Warden Jim Salmonsen told reporters.

Montana prisoner with history of mental illness dies after disemboweling himself at state prison Ashley Nerbovig View Comments A man with a history of mental illness and self-harm died May 23 after he disemboweled himself while in custody at the Montana State Prison.  Shaun Duncan Morrison, 39, died from a self-inflicted open wound to his stomach wall, according to his death certificate. Morrison caused the injury to himself on May 19. He lived for four days before dying from his injuries as w...

DEER LODGE — The deaths of two inmates who died in separate incidents nearly a year apart in their cells at the Montana State Prison were deemed to be suicides by a jury at the end of a pair of hearings Wednesday in Powell County District Court. Laurence Alan Stewart, 32, was amid a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against the prison and corrections officers when he was found dead in his prison cell on April 30, 2020 in the high security area of the prison.  During testimony on Wednesday...