I assume that the Safety Smock, "a quilted gown designed specifically to clothe suicidal prisoners/inmates," on the Ferguson Safety Products website (www.preventsuicide.com) is not a hoax. They sound serious and appear to have thought a lot about this idea. However the models shown wearing a Safety Smock are either real suicidal inmates or else really sad parodies of the kind of scraggly haired people you would imagine in one of these things in your worst stereotypes of suicidal prisoners.

Another unfortunately hilarious section is their Suicide Prevention Resources page, including links to Suicide Help (!? we recommend using something heavier than a .22), the playfully named Lollie's Suicide Prevention, and the silliest title I've heard since the instructional books "Signing for Dummies" and "Public Speaking for Dummies, 2nd edition": a PBS.org subsite called Living With Suicide.