Georgia Department of Corrections officials are not commenting on three deaths in state prisons in the past week.
They’re investigating two of those deaths as possible suicides.
Federal statistics show between 2001 and 2013, suicide was the cause in 4 percent of inmate deaths in Georgia prisons, which was lower than the national rate of 6 percent.
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