Only 16 US states provide free, detailed and updated suicide data from their prison systems, with 13 states providing incomplete data that was not always free, 8 states providing sparse or old data, and 13 states providing no data at all

Only 16 US states provide free, detailed and updated suicide data from their prison systems, with 13 states providing incomplete data that was not always free, 8 states providing sparse or old data, and 13 states providing no data at all, in violation of the Death in Custody Reporting Act Credit: LeMasters et al., 2023, […]

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Only 16 US states provide free, detailed and updated suicide data from their prison systems, with 13 states providing incomplete data that was not always free, 8 states providing sparse or old data, and 13 states providing no data at all, in violation of the Death in Custody Reporting Act

Suicides in state prisons in the United States: Highlighting gaps in data

Credit: LeMasters et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0285729

Article Title: Suicides in state prisons in the United States: Highlighting gaps in data

Author Countries: USA

Funding: This work is supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (LBR). This research was also supported in part from The National Institutes of Minority Health and Health Disparities F31 Predoctoral Fellowship (F31MD017136), The National Institute on Drug Abuse: Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Program on Substance Use and HIV (R25DA037190) and The Carolina Population Center provided general and training support (P2C-HD050924; T32-HD007168) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (KL). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.