TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Deaths in private prisons 1990-99: a comparative study
JO  - Trends and issues in crime and criminal justice
A1  - Biles, David
A1  - Dalton, Vicki
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EP  - 
VL  - 120
IS  - 
N2  - 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.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0817-8542
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -