School of Social Work, College of Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
J Correct Health Care. 2022 Jun;28(3):179-189. doi: 10.1089/jchc.20.07.0059. Epub 2022 Mar 23.
Research studies on injuries within the jail setting are few and far between. Perhaps the assumption that violent offending and violent victimization precede injury explains the limited attention. We suggest that there is a need for more empirical investigations that distinctly focus on jail-based injury. Using monthly correctional health metrics for New York City jail facilities between January 2017 and June 2019, we performed negative binomial regression modeling to explore the facility-level predictors of injury evaluation reports (IERs). Findings showed that youth-centric jails reduced the likelihood of IERs by 89% and health care-centric jails reduced the likelihood of IERs by 91%. Findings support the use of specialized facilities to mitigate injuries in jail. However, further examinations into the underlying mechanisms of specialized facilities that reduce injury are still required to meet the immediate needs of people who are incarcerated in jails.
监狱环境中伤害的研究很少。也许人们认为暴力犯罪和暴力受害先于伤害发生，这可以解释为什么对此关注有限。我们认为，有必要进行更多的实证研究，明确关注基于监狱的伤害。我们使用 2017 年 1 月至 2019 年 6 月期间纽约市监狱设施的每月矫正健康指标，通过负二项式回归模型来探讨设施层面影响伤害评估报告（IER）的因素。研究结果表明，以青年为中心的监狱使 IER 发生的可能性降低了 89%，以医疗保健为中心的监狱使 IER 发生的可能性降低了 91%。研究结果支持使用专门设施来减轻监狱中的伤害。然而，仍需要进一步研究专门设施减少伤害的潜在机制，以满足被监禁者的迫切需求。
