title: Suicide in adult correctional facilities: key ingredients to prevention and overcoming the obstacles.
abstract: Author notes that inmate suicide continues to pose a serious public health problem within correctional facilities. He reviews the problem, the key components to comprehensive suicide prevention programming, and the obstacles to prevention.
authors.affiliation: National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, Mansfield, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Hayes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011330:Prisons / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013405:Suicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States; D000092864:Suicide Prevention