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| City Initiative Spotlights Self-Harm in Jails |
| By theforumnewsgroup.com |
| Published: 11/04/2014 |
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With headlines highlighting a new salacious scandal or incident of extreme violence at Rikers Island seemingly every day, the de Blasio administration this week turned the spotlight on a grant-funded initiative aimed at lowering the rates of suicide and self-harm incidents among inmates in the nation’s largest jail system. Between 2007 and 2011, there were eight suicides and 2,514 incidents of self-harm at Rikers Island. Funded by a $400,000 grant from the National Institute of Justice, the city Department of Correction, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and the Vera Institute of Justice will embark on a three-year project to standardize review of instances of inmate suicide or self-harm, and document what can be done to reduce the likelihood of such instances happening again. Read More. |
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