California Examines Prison Guards' High Suicide Rate
January 15, 2018
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Correctional Officer Scott Jones kissed his wife goodbye on July 8, 2011, and headed off to a maximum-security prison in the remote high desert of northeastern California. He never came home.
Jones' body was found a day later, along with a note explaining why the 36-year-old took his own life: "The job made me do it."