The study cites statistics indicating that circumstances in Louis's suicide were not unique. Suicide, for example, accounts for all deaths of juveniles in jail, according to the report. A large part of Atlas's job is to curtail the opportunity for suicide behind bars. He says he furnishes advice to Government officials throughout the nation about how to improve security in correctional facilities. He also helped design the Dade County Stockade now under construction near Miami International Airport.
Suicides are absolutely, positively preventable.