Feb
14
2011
Any Contact with the Criminal Legal System Increases Suicide Risk…
(h/t to my friend Gary for this information)
Interaction with the criminal justice system, even if there is no guilty verdict, may be an independent risk factor for suicide, researchers report. A study that included more than 27,000 suicides found that odds of suicide were greater after contact with the criminal justice system for both men and women. The association was true even when the cases resulted in not guilty verdicts or sentences without jail time, the researchers report in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Suicide was particularly likely for individuals with recent or frequent contact with the justice system, or for violent offenders. (Medpage Today, 2/07/11)
Uncategorized | prison culture | 14 February 2011 |
By Melissa, February 14, 2011 @ 8:20 pm
Interesting and so very sad. I was talking with a friend today about a series of suicides of undocumented immigrant youth who felt hopeless because they had no chance of going to college. And on the Taskforce blog, I’ve posted about young women who have been sexually assaulted, failed by systems, and then committed suicide. And of course there are the well-documented bullying cases of LGBTQ youth that have tragically led to suicide. And now this post. Common denominator? Oppressive systems. Sounds like a lot of organizing to be done.