Counting the cost: Estimating the number of deaths among recently released prisoners in Australia

SA Kinner; DB Preen; A Kariminia; T Butler; JY Andrews; M Stoové; M Law

Journal article

Counting the cost: Estimating the number of deaths among recently released prisoners in Australia

SA Kinner, DB Preen, A Kariminia, T Butler, JY Andrews, M Stoové, M Law

Medical Journal of Australia | WILEY | Published : 2011

DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03208.x

Abstract

Objective: To estimate the number of deaths among people released from prison in Australia in the 2007-08 financial year, within 4 weeks and 1 year of release. Design, participants and setting: Application of crude mortality rates for ex-prisoners (obtained from two independent, state-based record-linkage studies [New South Wales and Western Australia]) to a national estimate of the number and characteristics of people released from prison in 2007-08. Main outcome measures: Estimated number of deaths among adults released from Australian prisons in 2007-08, within 4 weeks and 1 year of release, classified by age, sex, Indigenous status and cause of death. Results: It was estimated that among..

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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

Funding Acknowledgements

Stuart Kinner's work is supported by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants 401761, 456107, 409966 and 1004765. The original WA research was funded by the Criminology Research Council. We also thank the WA Departments of Health and Corrective Services for provision of data. Data collection in NSW was funded by NHMRC grant 222849. We thank staff from the NSW Department of Corrective Services for their assistance with data collection.