Rates and causes of death after release from incarceration: an individual participant data meta-analysis from 1,471,526 people in eight high- and middle-income countries
Rohan Borschmann, Stuart Kinner, MARIC team · 2024
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Rohan Borschmann, Stuart Kinner, and the MARIC team wrote this 2024 study on the deadly weeks after prison release. People leaving incarceration carry poor health and face sharply elevated, preventable death rates, yet the timing and causes by subgroup were poorly mapped. The team pooled individual data on nearly one and a half million released people from eight countries, followed across more than ten million person-years.
Over seventy-five thousand deaths were recorded. The death rate peaked in the very first week out, led by drug and alcohol poisoning, suicide, and cardiovascular disease. Causes shifted with time since release and varied by region, while overall rates were similar for men and women and higher in older groups. The authors argue the first week is a clinical emergency hiding in plain sight, demanding coordinated transitional care for mental illness and substance use from day one.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rohan Borschmann, Stuart Kinner, MARIC team |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |