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Wilson funeral set for May 2

INDIANA DAILY STUDENT | IDSNEWS.COM

From IDS reports

Funeral services for Hannah Wilson have been planned for Saturday. All services will be at Fishers High School Auditorium and are open to the public, according to a press release from Hamilton Southeastern School. A calling is scheduled from 4 to 7 p.m. and will be an informal gathering for attendees to speak with the family and share memories of Hannah. The funeral will begin at 7 p.m. Hannah was a cheerleader at Hamilton Southeastern High School and was an IU psychology major set to graduate in May. “Hamilton Southeastern School stands ready to support the family of Hannah Wilson,” said HSE Director of School and Community Relations Beverly Smith. “Our school community has lost a promising talent and an even greater person. On behalf of HSE Superintendent Dr. Allen Bouriff and the Board of School Trustees, we extend out condolences and prayers to all of her family and loved ones at this most difficult time.” Alison Graham

ILLUSTRATION BY MORGAN ANDERSON | IDS

IDS INVESTIGATES HEALING AND PUNISHMENT

The jail is becoming Monroe County’s new mental health hospital. With Sunday’s suicide, it’s apparent some inmates are falling through the cracks.

BFC votes on policy, changes CREM

By MK Wildeman | marwilde@indiana.edu | @mkwildeman

aesherma@indiana.edu | @aesherma

When inmates need help

By Ashleigh Sherman

T

he jail had a perfect record. For almost 30 years, there were no suicides. When two correctional officers rushed into Jeffrey Dugan Jr.’s jail cell at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, the streak of success was broken. He was hanging by a noose made from pieces of his mattress top. The officers lowered his body and tried to resuscitate the 33-yearold, Sheriff Brad Swain said, but the man was already dead. Before the incident, no one suspected anything. Dugan’s fellow inmates said he seemed fine, though he had just broken up with his girlfriend. Attempts are common in the jail setting, but since 1986, they have all been unsuccessful, Swain said. All the right steps were being taken to prevent suicides. Monroe County Jail administration even exceeded expectations when it hired a full-time psychologist to handle mental health issues in the jail.

Don Weller counseled hundreds of inmates for suicide in his first year working as the jail’s counselor. Jail officers screen inmates carefully when they are booked, trying to determine who might be at risk. But some slip through the cracks. ‘The new mental health hospitals’ Jails are intended to deter people from committing crimes, not act as mental health hospitals. But in Monroe County, now more than ever, people experiencing mental illness are winding up in jail, blurring the line between healing and punishment. Power holders of the correctional community — the jail commander, a public defender, a circuit court judge and others — can’t pin down why they are seeing so many inmates who experience mental illness. They can’t be expected to, with no way of tracking the population, no checkbox for a jail officer

This is part two of a three-part series Read the entire series on idsnews.com, and check out our next Healing and Punishment story in Thursday’s paper. to mark “mentally ill.” Before 2013 there were routes available to jail officers when an inmate reached crisis level, but there was little the jail staff could do to manage problems on a daily basis. The Monroe County Jail commander knew something had to be done. Wary of a potential lawsuit, he found a partial fix. He hired Weller full-time. In his first year alone, Weller saw 1,180 inmates for mental health concerns, an amount which represents about 20 percent of people booked into the jail annually. A U.S. Bureau of Justice study found 64 SEE JAIL, PAGE 8

RUGBY

Club team prepares for national championship By Alison Graham akgraham@indiana.edu | @AlisonGraham218

Three minutes remain until practice begins. Players sit on metal bleachers, lace up their cleats and wait for the coach to arrive. Three of them try to kick a ball into a trash can and laugh when they miss. Another player makes a Spongebob reference. IU Coach Sopa Enari walks up the hill to Evan Williams Field where his team is waiting for him. After a quick scrimmage, he brings his team in for some pointers, especially about defense. “You have to think, ‘what is the best decision that you can make?’” he tells them. Those decisions will play a large part in the IU rugby team’s next big championship, which is only four weeks away.

After winning the Big Ten Rugby Sevens Tournament on April 18, the rugby team qualified for the Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship and the College Sevens National Championships. But the team’s success didn’t always come easy. After 2006, the rugby team consisted of good players, but they weren’t going anywhere. They stopped advancing in competitions, Enari said. Enari had coached the rugby team from 1994 to 2006 before he left to work on the West Coast. He was asked to return as coach in 2013. The team went undefeated in the first season. “The boys wanted their rugby career at IU to mean something,” SEE RUGBY, PAGE 6

The Bloomington Faculty Council approved a policy addressing the creation, reorganization, elimination and merger of academic units and programs, or CREM, during its last meeting of the semester Tuesday. Ilana Gershon and Jon Simons, associate professors in the Department of Communication and Culture, and Cassidy Sugimoto, professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, presented the proposed policy. With the proposal, University, campus or school administrators, faculty through their governance bodies and students through their governance bodies may initiate a CREM. These interested parties must provide a prima-facie case explaining why the CREM is desirable and feasible. If all interested parties accept the prima-facie case, the affected faculty, staff, undergraduate students and graduate students, elected by the deans of the individual schools and by their representative bodies, will form an internal review committee, which will then make recommendations on the CREM. Individuals not employed by IU, elected by the deans of the individual schools and by the internal review committee, will form an external review committee, which will also make recommendations on the CREM. Eligible voting faculty affected by the CREM will then vote to proceed or not. If the affected faculty vote to proceed with the CREM, ex officio members of the offices of the deans of the individual schools and affected faculty, staff, undergraduate students and graduate students elected by the internal review committee will form a planning committee, which will make the final proposal for

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