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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

05.31.23 | PLOS

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Suicides in state prisons in the United States: Highlighting gaps in data
State map by prison system suicide data grade. Republished from MapChart under a CC BY license, with permission from MapChart, original copyright 2014. Credit: LeMasters et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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

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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.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0285729

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

31-May-2023

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Imprisonment Public Health Social Sciences Sociology Suicide

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0285729
Article Publication Date
2023-05-31
Article Title
Suicides in state prisons in the United States: Highlighting gaps in data
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

How to Cite This Article

APA:
PLOS. (2023, May 31). 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. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/12DZR0E1/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-1.html
MLA:
"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." Brightsurf News, May. 31 2023, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/12DZR0E1/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-1.html.