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A new report by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General blames “deficiencies” within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for 187 deaths by suicide over a eight-year period. The report, released Thursday, came after reviewing 344 inmate deaths from 2014 to 2021 and finding that 187 — more than half — died…