Trystan Bannon, "Suicide risk among prisoners in French Guiana..." Annotation

Ayhan, Gülen, et al. “Suicide risk among prisoners in French Guiana: prevalence and predictive

factors.” BMC Psychiatry, vol. 17, no. 1, Feb. 2017, pp. 1–10., doi:10.1186/s12888-017-1320-4.

This article takes a survey of the suicide risk associated with prison, specifically prisons in the New Guiana are and how they vary from other European areas. They try to fill this unstudied gap and relate it to WHO statistics (their statistics have a much broader stroke) and mention variations stated by that department. They go to mention that some of their study limitations involved prisoner bias, some didn’t answer and may have had different risk, and that they sample may have changes based on time spent in incarceration. They push for further study on the different times spent within incarceration for the future.