Suicide in prisons

Preventing suicide in prisons, part I. Recommendations from the International Association for Suicide Prevention Task Force on Suicide in Prisons.

In 2000 the Department of Mental Health of the World Health Organization (WHO) published a guide named Preventing Suicide. A Resource for Prison Officers as part of the WHO worldwide initiative for the prevention of suicide. In 2007 there are new epidemiological data on prison suicide, a more detailed discussion of risk factors accounting for the generally higher rate of suicide in correctional...

Contagious suicide in prisons and police cells.

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to determine whether clustering of suicide occurred in prisoners and detainees in police cells and to describe the characteristics of any clusters identified. DESIGN Mortality from suicide was examined for evidence of clusters. SETTING Prisons (1971-1988) and police cells (1980-September 1991) in New Zealand. SUBJECTS 82 male suicides. MAIN RESULTS There were...

Suicide and homicide in U.S. prisons.

Self-harm and suicide in prisons and secure hospitals

Suicide is one of the ten leading causes of death worldwide and will represent about 2.4% of the global burden of disease by 2020, with about 1.5 million people dying by suicide each year (Reulbach 2008). Between 2000 and 2004, there were 23 477 suicides in the UK, a rate of 10.2 suicides per 100 000 for the entire population (Appleby 2006). Despite this, information to guide prevention strateg...

Running head: SUICIDE ATTEMPTS IN PRISONS Suicide attempts among incarcerated homicide offenders

The aim was to investigate the role of age, drug abuse, period of confinement, loneliness, difficulty in controlling emotions, having no friends in prison, victimization in prison, guilt over crimes, insomnia, nightmares, anxiety, depression, and mood change in predicating suicide attempts in a sample of homicidal young prisoners. Poisson regression model indicated that five variables contribut...