Prison Suicide

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smaller prison systems. This finding, Hayes argued, reflects the lack of resources that smaller prisons tend to have. This finding obviously shows that the prison environment is an important factor implicated in prison suicide.
Research shows that hanging is the most common manner in which inmates commit suicide. In a British study, 90 per cent of inmates committed suicide by hanging themselves, 4 per cent did it via poison or drug overdose, 3 per cent via cutting themselves, and 1 per cent via smoke inhalation or burns (Dooley 1990. These figures are similar to those found by Hayes (1995 ) in the US, who found that 96 per cent of inmates committed suicide by hanging themselves, and the rest did it via cutting themselves or ingesting drugs. Similarly, White and Schimmel (1995 ) found that 79 per cent of prison suicides were done by hanging, 7 per cent by jumping to their deaths, while drug overdose, shooting and cutting accounted for 5 per cent each.
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