Title: Prisoner suicide - Wikipedia
Headings: Prisoner suicide
Prisoner suicide
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Content: One criticism of the current case law is that prison officials are incentivized to avoid screening inmates for suicidal tendencies, because if the screening is ineffective, or the jail fails to deter the suicidal attempt of a prisoner it knows is suicidal, the governmental entity and the jailer may be at greater risk of being held liable than if they had conducted no screening. Nonetheless, some jails screen anyway, since jail suicides are difficult on staff and on the municipality and often lead to legal action, and because some states mandate screening procedures and impose tort liability for failure to follow them. Elected officials may face political ramifications if they become the scapegoat for a prisoner suicide. Another factor that has led to more screening of inmates for suicide is that research has shown that suicide tends to be the result of a plan rather than impulsive, which makes the suicide potentially more foreseeable if proper screening is done. See also
Death in custody
Death row phenomenon
Estelle v. Gamble
Guantanamo Bay detention camp suicide attempts
List of prison deaths
Philip Markoff
Jeffrey Epstein
References
^ CORREIA, KEVIN M. Suicide Assessment in a Prison Environment A Proposed Protocol. Criminal justice and behavior. ( 10/2000), 27 (5), p. 581–99. ^ a bFerrari, Lorenzo (14 May 2018). " Why are there relatively fewer suicides in prison in the Balkans than elsewhere in Europe?". OBC Transeuropa/EDJNet.