Citation

Biles D, Dalton V. Trends Iss. Crime Crim. Justice 1999; 120.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Australian Institute of Criminology)

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Abstract

A number of deaths have raised the issue of whether private prisons are more dangerous for inmates at risk. This paper examines numbers of deaths both in absolute terms and in terms of rates per 1000 prisoners per year. The paper shows that: public and private prisons have similar death rates for all causes of death, including suicide; and death rates are higher in prisons which house remand and reception prisoners rather than long term prisoners.