Sad statistics of the police and the penitentiary service

One of the indicators of the state of safety during imprisonment is the number of deaths, in particular, the number of suicide cases.
In 2011, 21 people died in Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) institutions, 11 of whom were suicides. In 2012, 19 people died, 15 of whom were suicides. At the same time, during 2011, according to data obtained by ‘Donetsk Memorial’ from the MVD, 256,100 people were held in 467 temporary detention facilities (ITT) in Ukraine throughout 2011, and 110,100 people in the 6 months of 2012. This number does not include people who were detained and subsequently released by MVD bodies, and were not delivered to the ITT.
In these two years, 21 police officers died in the line of duty: in 2011, 13, and in 2012, 8 police officers died. At the same time, in 2011, 19 police officers committed suicide, and the same number committed suicide in 2012.
It is worth comparing this data with the situation in the institutions of the penitentiary service.
In the penitentiary service, these indicators have increased significantly in the last two years: in 2008–2010, 760–808 prisoners died each year out of approximately 150,000 inmates. In 2011, this indicator suddenly rose to 1,169 people, decreasing slightly to 1,021 prisoners in 2012.
The number of suicides among prisoners increased from 40–44 cases annually in 2008–2010 to 59 cases in 2011 and to 65 cases in 2012.