Higher suicide risk after served prison sentence
People who have been in prison run a higher risk of committing suicide – 18 times that of the general population. By far the highest risk of suicide comes in the first months after release and among individuals with a history of substance abuse and previous suicide attempts. These are the findings of a register study conducted by researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, being published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.It is previously known that persons in Swedish prisons and remand facilities run an increased risk of committing suicide. Studies from Australia, England