The practice of self-injurious behaviors (SIBs) within corrections disproportionately consumes resources and negatively impacts staff. This manuscript features a case study of an offender currently housed in a maximum security prison who routinely engages in self-injury. Findings are presented along the tripartite themes of family background, suicidality, and SIB. Policy implications include supporting a systematic reorientation toward therapeutic responses in lieu of the current punitive responses that may in fact be iatrogenic.
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