From chaos to calm: one jail system's struggle with suicide prevention

Hayes, Lindsay M.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0798(199723/09)15:4<399::aid-bsl284>3.0.co;2-o

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“…• Education and training of individuals: training to increase coping skills 97) • Development of a support network: encouraging support from staff [98][99][100] • Cooperation from internal and external resources:…”

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“…cooperating with community resources 101) • Education and training of managers and staff: training of staff [99][100][101][102][103][104] • S c re e n i n g a…”

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“…als [98][99][100][101][102][103][105][106][107][108][109] • Improvement of building structures 99,100,[104][105][106]109) No particular characteristic contents of suicide prevention programs in jail were reported.…”

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Characteristics and Effects of Suicide Prevention Programs: Comparison between Workplace and Other Settings

Takada

Shima

2010

INDUSTRIAL HEALTH

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The present study reviews the literature on suicide prevention programs conducted in the workplace and other settings, namely school, the community, medical facilities, jail, and the army, by conducting an electronic literature search of all articles published between 1967 and November 2007. From a total of 256 articles identified, various contents of suicide prevention programs were determined, and in 34 studies, the effect of programs was evaluated. A review of the literature reveals that the common contents of suicide prevention programs in the workplace and other settings are education and training of individuals, development of a support network, cooperation from internal and external resources, as well as education and training of managers and staff. Although the characteristic contents of suicide prevention programs at the workplace aimed at improving personnel management and health care, screening and care for high-risk individuals, as well as improvement of building structures, were not described. Although a reduction in undesirable attitudes and an increase in mental health knowledge and coping skills in the workplace are in agreement with findings in other settings, suicide rate, suicide-associated behavior, and depression, which were assessed in other settings, were not evaluated in the three studies targeting the workplace. Key words: Suicide prevention program, Effect, WorkplaceIndustrial Health 2010, 48, 416-426 Review ArticleCHARACTERISTICS AND EFFECTS OF SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAMS 417 grams currently proposed in the workplace and other settings, such as school, the community, medical facilities, jail, and the army, provides information on the content and context of suicide prevention programs, and details recommendations for future prevention programs. ObjectivesThe present study compares the characteristics and effect of suicide prevention programs between the workplace and other settings.

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“…cooperating with community resources 101) • Education and training of managers and staff: training of staff [99][100][101][102][103][104] • S c re e n i n g a…”

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Characteristics and Effects of Suicide Prevention Programs: Comparison between Workplace and Other Settings

Takada

Shima

2010

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“…Under suicide watch, prisoners were checked every few minutes with a flashlight, which prevented meaningful sleep or rest. 45 Under appropriate medical care, a flashlight is shined on truly suicidal prisoners every 20 minutes to ensure that they do not harm themselves (Danto 1997;Hayes 1997). This standard medical procedure, however, becomes a means of ill-treatment and torture when nonsuicidal prisoners are placed on suicide watch and are prevented from sleeping for extended periods.…”

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Practicing penal harm medicine in the United States: Prisoners' voices from jail

Vaughn

Smith

1999

Justice Quarterly

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This article explores how the implementation of the penal harm movement within a correctional health care system can lead to the ill-treatment and torture of prisoners. Through an interpretive/inductive analysis of reports written by a federal court monitor and 103 letters written by prisoners to a federal court monitor overseeing a consent decree of a county mega jail located in the United States, we identify six areas of ill-treatment and torture at the jail's medical facilities: (1) using medical care to humiliate prisoners;(2) withholding medical care from HIV-positive prisoners and those with AIDS; (3) withholding medical care from other prisoners; (4) exposing prisoners to temperature extremes and sleep deprivation; (5) using dental care as a means of ill-treatment and torture; and (6) falsifying prisoners' medical records. Because correctional medical personnel work in a system that subordinates their professional canons to the efficiency-based rationality of the new penology and the ethical relativism of the penal harm movement, we conclude that some correctional health providers sympathetic to the custodial subculture abdicate their ethical obligations, and that the result is illtreatment and torture of prisoners.

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“…The training places particular emphasis on the Suicide Prevention Screening Instrument as well as on interpersonal attitude and responsiveness. Since the implementation of this program, suicide rates in New York correctional facilities have decreased substantially (Cox et al, 1989;Hayes, 1997). Hayes (1998) reported 32 suicides in 1984 (or an annual rate of 177 per 100,000 inmates) in the New York system, with only 18 suicides in 1997 (or 54 per 100,000 inmates annually).…”

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Correctional Suicide Prevention in the Year 2000 and Beyond

Bonner

2000

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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Although the problem of suicide in jail and prison historically has been ignored, significant insight has been gained over the past several decades due primarily to increasing litigation. This article provides a brief overview of the progress in research, programming, and policy. The new millennium offers exciting opportunities for continued growth in correctional suicide prevention. The key areas of process research, risk assessment, and public and penological policy changes are reviewed and considered vital for the field's advancement.

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From chaos to calm: one jail system's struggle with suicide prevention

Cited by 17 publications

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Characteristics and Effects of Suicide Prevention Programs: Comparison between Workplace and Other Settings

Characteristics and Effects of Suicide Prevention Programs: Comparison between Workplace and Other Settings

Practicing penal harm medicine in the United States: Prisoners' voices from jail

Correctional Suicide Prevention in the Year 2000 and Beyond

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