In 2024, 13 people in North Carolina prisons died by suicide — tying the record for most suicides in a year. In addition, 2,941 self-harm incidents occurred that required a self-injury risk ...

In particular, the highest rate of suicide mortality occurred in the two-week period after release — at a rate of 37 per 100,000 people. The suicide mortality rates reached another peak at 33.5 ...

When the outside thermometer hits 90 degrees Fahrenheit or more, a new study shows that prison suicide risk jumps 36%, in comparison to when temperatures are in the 60s.

Incarcerated men are three times more likely to die by suicide than other men; jailed women are nine times more likely to die by suicide than other women. Prisoners accused or convicted of ...

In particular, the highest rate of suicide mortality occurred in the two-week period after release — at a rate of 37 per 100,000 people. The suicide mortality rates reached another peak at 33.5 ...

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

Despite the skyrocketing suicide rate, from Sept. 1, 2021, to Sept. 20 this year, ... incarcerated people who patrol units to check on those who may have suicidal ideations ...

Mass incarceration is a public health crisis that harms the health and well-being of incarcerated people, corrections staff, ...

The rate of suicide in CDCR during 2023 was 32.2 suicide deaths per 100,000 incarcerated individuals. In 2021, the rate was 15.5 suicide deaths per 100,000; it rose to 21.6 in 2022. The U.S. Bureau of ...

For example, 21% of people who die by suicide have had some interaction with the criminal justice system in the year before they died. So researchers are applying the zero-suicide model to people ...

The adjusted suicide rate rose from 25.1 per 100,000 to 29.9. Suicide was the leading cause of death in the five years to 2022 for Indigenous people aged 15-39. Those aged 35-44 have the highest ...

The number of suicide deaths among incarcerated people was also down ... Native Americans have been disproportionately affected by suicide overall with a rate 3.5 times higher in 2018 than ...