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The state Assembly is moving to approve bills intended to prevent suicide in Wisconsin.
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Read More »Suicide prevention hotline still awaiting state funding
The partisan squabbling over a $110,000 grant for a suicide prevention hotline continues as the group waits to receive the funding a month after lawmakers approved releasing it.
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Read More »Wisconsin suicide task force reverses course on proposal (UPDATE)
A bipartisan Wisconsin legislative task force reversed course Wednesday by recommending the faster release of money for a suicide-prevention hotline after it had initially called on the Legislature to pass a bill to award the money, which would take much longer.
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Read More »Suicide attempts increase at juvenile prison
La Crosse County officials are considering structural changes at the county's juvenile prison after a spike in suicide attempts.
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Read More »Madison gun shop owners join effort to prevent suicide
A sheriff's detective walked into Chuck Lovelace's gun shop in Mount Horeb this spring and delivered unsettling news: A man who had bought a handgun at the shop a few days earlier used it to kill himself.
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Read More »Cellmate accused of assisting suicide attempt
A cellmate is accused of helping a man in the Portage County Jail in a suicide attempt.
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Read More »Experts: Law community needs to confront suicide risk
Attorney ranks fourth on the list of professions with the highest rate of suicides, according to data released earlier this year.
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Read More »Parties reach $737,500 settlement following inmate suicide
The state of Wisconsin has agreed to pay a $737,500 settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit resulting from the suicide of Jessie Miller while he was an inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage.
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Read More »Mother can’t sue state for son’s suicide, rules 7th Circuit
The duty to take more active anti-suicide measures arises only when the risk is imminent, the 7th Circuit has ruled, affirming summary judgment for state officials who treated a teenager who hung himself while in a youth detention facility.
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Read More »Racine judge dead of apparent suicide
Racine County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Barry was found dead Thursday morning of an apparent suicide, according to Racine County Medical Examiner Tom Terry.
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