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Suicide and the Jail Environment

An Evaluation of Three Types of Institutions

Christine Tartaro

Stockton College

A sample of 321 jail administrators identified their facilities as being either linear intermittent; podular, indirect supervision; or podular, direct supervision. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to determine the odds of these jails experiencing at least one inmate suicide during 1998. Jail design and supervision were not found to affect the likelihood of these jails reporting at least one inmate suicide. Other possible factors, such as aggregate inmate sex and age, the percent of pretrial detainees, officer/inmate ratio, the number of bookings, and the amount of time that officers spent in the inmate living areas were controlled for in the models.

Key Words: jail • suicide • podular, direct supervision • new generation

Environment and Behavior, Vol. 35, No. 5, 605-620 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0013916503254753
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