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Content: Why Jails Pose Such a High Suicide Risk (2015)
Why Jails Pose Such a High Suicide Risk (2015)
https://www.thecut.com/2015/07/why-jails-pose-such-a-high-suicide-risk.html
"We’ll never know exactly what happened to Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old black woman who police said was found hanged to death in her Texas jail cell last week following her arrest after a traffic stop. Even though the last two days’ worth of news — the official autopsy, the fact that Bland had told prison officials she had attempted suicide earlier this year, and a video in which she had recounted her struggles with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder — do point to suicide, there’s still a formal investigation to be done. The 'Shock Of Confinement': The Grim Reality Of Suicide In Jail (2015)
The 'Shock Of Confinement': The Grim Reality Of Suicide In Jail (2015)
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/27/426742309/the-shock-of-confinement-the-grim-reality-of-suicide-in-jail
"If it turns out Bland did commit suicide, experts in jail mortality say it wouldn't be as surprising as her family believes. The grim reality is that jails have high suicide rates — higher than prisons. Part of the reason, says corrections expert and consultant Steve J. Martin, is what he calls the "shock of confinement." Jails often house people who've never been in serious legal trouble before, and it can have a traumatic effect on them." New BJS report shows suicide in jails is a national crisis (2015)
New BJS report shows suicide in jails is a national crisis (2015)
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2015/08/04/bjs_jail_suicide/
"At this unique moment when the public is actually paying attention to local jails, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has released a new report based on its Death in Custody Reporting Program showing that the number of people who died while under custody of state prisons and local jails increased for a third consecutive year and, especially troubling, that suicide in jails is a national crisis"
Why Jails Have More Suicides than Prisons (2015)
Why Jails Have More Suicides than Prisons (2015)
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/08/04/why-jails-have-more-suicides-than-prisons
"One reason why jails have a higher suicide rate (46 per 100,000 in 2013) than prisons (15 PER 100,000) is that people who enter a jail often face a first-time “shock of confinement”; they are stripped of their job, housing, and basic sense of normalcy.