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| Using Trained Inmate Observers for Suicide Watch in a Federal Correctional Setting - http://www.apa.org/journals/features/ser2120.pdf#search=%22suicide%20prevention%20inmate%22 Offers a study, in PDF format, by Gary Junker, Art Beeler, and Jeffrey Bates of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. |
| Suicide Prevention in Jails: A Lack of Rules - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=950DE4D61F39F935A15751C0A96F948260 Discover this New York Times article written by Albert J. Parisi. |
| SMHAI - Prison Suicide Prevention - http://suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org/preventionprison.html Read this guide, produces by the World Health Organiztion (WHO) that addresses suicide and suicide prevention in a correctional setting. |
| Centre for Suicide Prevention - Inmate Suicide - http://www.suicideinfo.ca/csp/assets/alert29.pdf#search=%22suicide%20prevention%20prisons%22 Browse to download this resource that notes inmates are a high-risk group for suicide. Find statistics or training. |
| Prison and Jail Suicide - http://www.johnhoward.ab.ca/PUB/C41.htm Become familiar with this 1999 report prepared by the John Howard Society of Alberta. See "Prevention, Intervention and Treatment." |
| Prisoner Counselling, Support and Suicide Prevention - http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/P/priscounsellingsupport.aspx?uid=3094-3748-9944-8932 Read this guide produced by the Department of Corrective Services of the Government of Western Australia. |
| Suicide and Self-injury Prevention - http://www.howardleague.org/index.php?id=suicideprevention Resource discusses the work of the Howard League for Penal Reform to reduce the incidence of suicide and self-injury in prisons. |
| NCBI - Peer suicide prevention in a prison - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15384653&dopt=Abstract Read an abstract of this paper written by B. Hall and P. Gabor of the Faculty of Social Work, The University of Calgary, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
| Deaths in Custody Bibliography 1970-1996 - http://www.aic.gov.au/services/biblio/26.html Discover this prisoner suicide prevention resource published by the Australian Institute of Criminology. |
| Evaluating Suicide Prevention Activities - http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/forum/e043/e043j_e.shtml Correctional Services Canada offers this guide that addresses the role of the prison system in inmate suicide. |
| Training Seminar “Suicide Prevention in Prisons”: Summary - http://www.humanrights.org.lv/html/news/28374.html Latvian Centre for Human Rights provides this resource that reviews this 2005 program. See statistics. |
| Training Curriculum on Suicide Detection and Prevention in Jails and Lockups - http://www.nicic.org/Library/012559 Become familiar with this guide prepared by the National Institute of Corrections. See resources offered. |