Using Trained Inmate Observers for Suicide Watch in a Federal Correctional Setting: A Win-Win Solution

Psychological Services

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 20-27

  Junker, Gary ^a   Beeler, Art ^a   Bates, Jeffrey ^a  

^a FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS   (United States)

Author keywords

inmate observer; prison; suicide; suicide watch

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948972950     PISSN: 15411559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1541-1559.2.1.20     Document Type: Article

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