The Oct. 22 incident is the seventh fall or jump from upper galleries at two Michigan prisons that the Free Press has documented since 2020.

Five of those incidents have been fatal, records show.

LANSING — Another inmate jumped from an upper level at Parnall Correctional Facility near Jackson on Oct. 22, a spokeswoman confirmed, three weeks after the Legislature axed $15 million the state Senate approved to improve the safety of upper railings at Parnall and two other Michigan prisons.

The inmate, who Michigan Department of Corrections officials would not immediately identify, survived the fall and is in the hospital, spokeswoman Jenni Riehle said.

"I can confirm that a prisoner at Parnall Correctional Facility engaged in an act of ... self-harm by intentionally falling from an upper g

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