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Concrete steps should be taken to address growing mental health issues

A prison officer who battled depression talks to his colleagues about his experiences.[Standard]

‘I feel depressed. I feel helpless. I just want to lock myself in the house and cry’, read a Facebook post in a group read in part. In the same group, someone else posted that they had been thinking about committing suicide.

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