Injury Surveillance in New York City Jails

Abstract

To characterize injuries occurring in jails, we analyzed injury report forms from the New York City jail system. We abstracted data from 4695 injury report forms representing 3863 patients. Of the injuries reported, 66% were classified as intentional. The 2 leading causes of injuries were inmate-on-inmate aggression (40%) and slips and falls (27%). Injuries place a considerable burden on jail health care systems, and there is a need for more studies on this problem and development of injury prevention programs.

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“…24 There is a scarcity of medical reports on injuries suffered at the hands of prison violence. 26,27 The "enhancement of capacity for collecting data on violence" by health care staff (as recommended by the WHO 8 ) and the "systematic recording and compiling of periodic statistics" on violence by health care professionals working in prisons (as proposed by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment and Punishment (CPT), 3 are lacking in most correctional facilities. As one unique example, the 2010 Clinical Indicators of Sexual Violence in Custody study (U.S. National Institute of Justice and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention) did propose the use of medical indicators and medical surveillance methodologies for the collection of sexual assault data in prison on a national level.…”

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“…23---25 Violence is prevalent in jail, including traumatic brain injury, which may potentiate behavioral problems and substance use. 26,27 Moreover, self-harm is common in jail and is promoted by features of the jail environment such as solitary confinement. 28 Jails have been shown to drive the community-level epidemiology of some communicable diseases, with the highest incidence among the frequently incarcerated.…”

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“…See Online for appendix Of these, 66% (486 per 1000 person years) were violent or intentional acts. 4 Using this rate as a national proxy, we estimate that 58 400 new intentional injuries occur in jail and 70 956 in prison each year.…”

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