Suicide mortality among individuals in federal prisons compared with the general population: a retrospective cohort study in the USA from 2009 to 2020

• Main Authors: Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein (Author), Katherine LeMasters (Author), Shabbar Ranapurwala (Author), Mike Dolan Fliss (Author), Michael Forrest Behne (Author), Emilie Duchesneau (Author), Jennifer Lao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMJ Publishing Group, 2024-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in US prisons. Yet, administrative data lags years behind and reporting rarely accounts for differing age distributions between suicide rates between incarcerated and general populations. Our objective was to compare reported suicides rate a...