Self-harming behaviors in prison: a comparison of suicidal processes, self-injurious behaviors, and mixed events

Self-harming behaviors occurring in prison disproportionately consume resources and cause considerable disruption. To date, theoretical paradigms have explained self-injurious behaviors and suicidal processes either via a continuum or dichotomy of self-harm. This current study examines all documented acts of self-harm (n=1,158) occurring in South Carolina's 28 prisons over a 50 month period. We test and find support for a tripartite schema of self-harm; differentiated with regard to suicidal processes, self-injurious behaviors, and a 'mixed group' of self-harming behaviors. These groups of behaviors were distinct with regard to situational variables (i.e. body part targeted, injury severity) as well as institutional responses (i.e., medical treatment needed, employment of suicide protocols). Findings indicate that self-injurious behaviors are likely to result in physical injury and/or hospitalizations

Implementing The Prison Rape Elimination Act: A Toolkit for Jails

Minor edits. “The goal of this Toolkit is to provide jails of all sizes, political divisions, and geographic locations with a step-by-step guide for preventing, detecting, and eliminating sexual abuse of inmates in their custody – and for responding effectively to abuse when it occurs. Prison rape includes all forms of inmate sexual abuse within a correctional facility, including state and federal prisons, county and municipal jails, police lock-ups, holding facilities, inmate transportation vehicles, juvenile detention facilities, and community corrections facilities. Protecting arrestees, detainees, and inmates from sexual violence is part of a jail’s core mission. This toolkit will help assess your jail’s operations with an eye to improvements.” The Toolkit is divided into folders holding materials related to: introductory information about PREA [Prison Rape Elimination Act] and it Standards; a Self-Assessment Checklist with supporting forms “to provide a step-by-step process for jails to review and assess policies, procedures, and practices in light of the PREA Standards and accepted best practices”; and additional resources to assist you in PREA-readiness

Proceedings of the annual congress of correction.

Proceedings for 1884 and 1885 include report of conference of prison officials, Chicago, 1884, separately paged.Other slight variations in title.Proceedings for 1884 and 1885, published 1886 in 1 v.No congresses were held in 1871-2, 1875, 1877-82, 1918.Proceedings for 1884 and 1885 include report of conference of prison officials, Chicago, 1884, separately paged.Mode of access: Internet.Issued by the Association under earlier names: 1874-1907, National Prison Association; 1908-1954, American Prison Association.Transactions of the 2d national prison congress, 1873, were issued with the Report on the International Penitentiary Congress of London, 1872.The National Congress on Penitentiary and Reformatory Discipline, 1870, is counted as the 1st national prison congress. Its Transactions are published as an appendix to the 26th Report of the Prison Association of New York and also separately.Continued by: American Correctional Association. Proceedings of the annual Congress of Correction of the American Correctional Association, ISSN 0065-7948

American prison association semi-centennial, 1870-1920.

Mode of access: Internet