Resource Tag: JAILS

This assessment presents 9 case summaries of deaths in custody that occurred between April 2008-April 2010. The cases were purposefully selected as they highlight significant &, in many instances, recurring patterns & themes. They illustrate the complexity of the challenges facing the Correctional Service of Canada in preserving life in a correctional context. Each case […]

This article describes the extent of juvenile offender suicide & protocols for intervening with this high-risk population. Procedures for crisis intervention are recommended & the step-by-step sequential Roberts’ 7 Stage Crisis Assessment & Crisis Intervention model is delineated & discussed. The article concludes with an examination of the extent to which suicide assessment & prevention […]

This report is the final report of a research program by the authors & correctional workers in Alberta to develop a suicide checklist. Four separate but related investigations were done & the findings are presented in this report. The first project developed a pool of clinical & historical items which could be used to discriminate […]

The purpose of this chapter is to outline & describe three primary elements of successful suicide prevention in corrections: risk identification, intervention, & training. (72 refs.)

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This chapter describes the development of a suicide prevention/crisis intervention program in seven New York county jails by the New York State Office of Mental Health & Ulster County Mental Health Services in collaboration with researchers. The structure of the program is built around identification and referral & intervention.

This booklet provides guidelines for suicide prevention in correctional settings. Topics discussed include: the development of suicide profiles; risk factors common to jails & prisons; & key components of a suicide prevention programme – training, intake screening, post-intake observation, management following screening, & postvention after a suicide attempt or a death by suicide. A brief […]

This handbook is divided into 4 parts. The first covers risk indicators & myths & facts about suicide. The second part discusses preventive measures, including what to do, what to say, & positive interaction techniques. The third part is on crisis intervention and the last section outlines what to do if a suicide attempt or […]

This position statement presents seven components of a successful suicide prevention program with a focus on recent research & the implications for improved suicide prevention. The 7 components are: staff training; ongoing identification of risk; communication; housing; levels of monitoring; intervention; & mortality & morbidity reviews. (8 refs.)

This French-language presentation discussed suicide in correctional institutions in Quebec, Canada.

This presentation focussed on the experience of starting & continuing the Lifeline Suicide Intervention Program at the Suffolk County Jail in Boston. One of the aims of the presentation was to demonstrate a peer-level program can be supportive of, & cooperative with, professional staff & consultants at the institution. A profile of the 60+ detainne […]

This article focuses on suicide in jails following arrest & lockup. The paper begins with a description of suicide patterns in jails & prisons, followed by a discussion of the experience of arrest & incarceration. Other topics discussed include: negligence, deliberate indifference, punishment, & foreseeability; case law from the United States; & recomendations related to […]

Inmates in the custody of federal & provincial corrections facilities are considered to be a group at high risk of suicide. This paper provides a statistical profile of inmate suicides in Canada & examines some of the research into the key precipitating factors & causes involved in inmate suicide. It also discusses various intervention, treatment, […]

In the first phase of this project, the authors developed a suicide checklist that could be used by clinical staff in correctional institutions to standardize the assessment procedure & to help predict suicide risk among inmates. The second phase of the project is the subject of this proposal. Data will be collected on a cohort […]

This article describes the prevalence of suicide among adults in detention centres, jails, & prisons; factors associated with suicide risk; methods for assessing suicide risk in this vulnerable population; & current protocols for suicide prevention programs in jails & prisons. (38 refs.)

The aims of this study were to describe causes of death during the 10-year period between 1995 and 2004 in a large urban jail in Chicago; to compare disease specific mortality rates between the jail population and the general population; to explore demographic and incarceration characteristics of the inmates who died in the jail by […]

Inmates in county jails and police lockups commit suicide at a rate of 16 times greater than individuals in the general population. This conclusion was reached as a result of findings in a National Study of Jail Suicides. Documentation of 419 suicides in county and local jails during 1979 is presented. From demographic data collected […]

Jail suicides are as institutionally significant as they are tragic. Consequently, jail administrators remain concerned about legal liability, espe cially when their policies and customs are brought into question. Indeed, as jail suicide litigation takes form, the focus of the suit is typically aimed at insti tutional problems, including deficiencies in training, monitoring, and condi […]

The problem of jail suicide has been widely publicized in many articles and corrections reports, yet seldom is this work organized in a framework. The current paper organizes the existing literature on suicide in jails and lockups within Clarke’s (1997) framework of situational prevention and Clarke and Lester’s (1989) work on suicide prevention. Due to […]

Two recent publications have reported vastly different rates of suicide in juvenile-justice residential facilities using the same data. Similarly, divergent rates were calculated on juvenile suicides while in custody using the same data in the 1980s. Using data from the Juvenile Residential Facility Census and the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement, this article demonstrates […]

Year 2004 suicide data from the South Carolina Violent Death Reporting System were linked to South Carolina Uniform Billing codes from hospital inpatient & emergency room billing records, State Dpartment of Mental Healthh service records, & criminal justice databases. Results shows the positive benefits of partnerships created through the South Carolina Violent Death Reporting System, […]

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