This is an odd phenom
Looks like a lot of the are middle eastern
The weird thing to me is that Western Europe has pretty cushy jails except for France which still has Bastille style joints
And they give out about 20% the severity of sentencing we do here at least federally
And they have perks like conjugal visits with about anyone and big cells and furloughs etc
So why suicide..
Plenty federal prisoners here have life sentences for non violent crimes ..pretty soft guys for life sentences
Yet suicide remains very low
It’s cultural I guess
Culturally, Europeans are a pretty solitary lot, whereas ME are a pretty social bunch. It’s probably due to a lot of isolation, despite having cable tv or video games to occupy their time. Their loneliness is probably the driver of most of it.
You think it’s cultural? Can you think of any other possibility? LOL
I knew someone whose child was killed by a thug. Somehow the thug committed suicide in jail. How he did it was a mystery. He was in a wheelchair and unable to walk but somehow was able to get up, walk away from his wheelchair and hang himself.