Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp Suicide Attempts
On June 10, 2006 three prisoners held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps allegedly committed suicide. The United States Department of Defense (DoD) stopped reporting Guantanamo suicide attempts in 2002.
In mid-2002 the DoD changed the way they classified suicide attempts, calling them "self-injurious behavior". The DoD acknowledges 41 suicide attempts among 29 detainees. The June 10, 2006 suicides were the first inmate deaths at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.
On January 24, 2005 the U.S. military revealed that there were 350 incidents of self-harm in 2003. 120 of those incidents of self-harm were attempts by detainees to hang themselves. 23 detainees participated in a simultaneous mass-suicide attempt.
Read more about Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp Suicide Attempts: Three Guantanamo Detainees Die Reportedly of Suicides On June 10, 2006, Fourth Guantanamo Detainee Dies of Suicide, May 30, 2007, Fifth Detainee Reported Dead of Suicide June 1, 2009, Sixth Detainee Dead of Apparent Suicide May, 2011, Reported Suicide Attempts
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