Investigation of deaths in prison in Japan [8]

Lancet

Volumn 362, Issue 9387, 2003, Pages 921-922

  Yoshida, Ken Ichi ^a   Uemura, Koichi ^a   Takeichi, Hisako ^a   Kawai, Kakuji ^a   Kikuchi, Yosuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHYXIA; ASPIRATION; ASTHMA; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DRUNKENNESS; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; JAPAN; LAW; LETTER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEGLIGENCE; PANCREATITIS; PERITONITIS; PHYSICIAN; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0141629823     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14321-8     Document Type: Letter

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5. Anon. [There was no causality between custodian's violence and prisoner's death - on the final report of the Ministry of Justice on 1600 deaths in prisons in the past 10 years in Japan]. Asahi Evening News June 13, 2003: 14.