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List and explain the eight suicide prevention activities that should be used in jails and what each one involves or requires.

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The eight most effective suicide prevention activities are effective screening including during the intake process, limiting prisoners who may have suicidal tendencies from being housed in isolated settings, good psychiatric evaluations done on a regular basis, written policies that detail how staff should treat potential suicidal inmates, credible training for guards and other personnel that most commonly have contact with inmates, decreased overcrowding, levels of supervision, and intervention plus review of any attempted ...

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