NYC launching system-wide review of jail suicides [Online.WSJ.com]

Samantha Sangenito 10/29/144:00 AM

New York City is using a $400,000 federal grant to review suicides and acts of self-harm in city jails with an approach commonly applied when things go wrong in the medical and aviation industries, officials said Tuesday.

The review — dubbed the "sentinel event" approach — is a way to identify systemic breakdowns by investigating occurrences such as suicides and unravelling the chain of events that preceded them, but not for the purposes of punishment.

"What we hope to have at the end of the day is really not a study that we can dust off and put on a shelf but a way forward of acting," said Elizabeth Glazer, director of the mayor's office of criminal justice. "That's the purpose of it is that things change."

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