Supplemental Table 1

Risk and relative risk of a first self-harm incident among NYC jail admissions January 1, 2010 – October
31, 2012 (N=244,699 incarcerations).
Characteristic No. of No. of Risk RR Self Number of Risk of RR of
Incarcerations Incarcerations (%) harm incarcerations potentially- potentially-
with any self- with fatal self- fatal self-
harm potentially- harm per harm
fatal self- 1,000
harm persons
All persons 244,699 1,303 0.53 - 89 0.36 -
Serious Mental Illness
Yes 9,704 259 2.67 6.00** 25 2.57 9.52**
No 232,833 1,043 0.45 Ref 64 0.27 Ref
Solitary during stay
Yes 17,889 695 3.88 14.37** 40 2.24 10.18**
No 226,810 608 0.27 Ref 49 0.22 Ref
Total length of stay in days
<8 101,435 23 0.02 Ref 6 0.06 Ref
8-14 23,881 28 0.12 6.00 ** 3 0.13 2.17
15-30 34,304 59 0.17 8.50 ** 2 0.06 1.00
31+ 85,079 1193 1.40 70.0** 78 0.92 15.33**
Age (years)
<19 15,732 478 3.03 18.94** 5 0.32 2.29
19-24 50,902 266 0.52 3.25** 26 0.51 3.64**
25-34 66,685 310 0.46 2.88** 27 0.40 2.86**
35-44 51,648 157 0.30 1.88** 23 0.45 3.21**
>44 58,353 92 0.16 Ref 8 0.14 Ref
Missing 1,379 0 - - 0 - -
Sex
Male 222,197 1200 0.54 1.17 83 0.37 1.37
Female 22,467 103 0.46 Ref 6 0.27 Ref
Race/ethnicity
Hispanic 77,239 478 0.62 1.19 45 0.58 0.74
Non-Hispanic 20,571 106 0.52 Ref 16 0.78 Ref
white
Non-Hispanic 137,256 691 0.50 0.96 28 0.20 0.26**
black
Non-Hispanic 2,359 5 0.21 0.40 0 0 -
Asian/PI
Other/Unknown 4,939 21 0.43 0.83 0 0 -
Supplemental Figure 1
Rate of first act of self-harm(per week) relative to date of jail admission among inmates in NYC jail
system, January 1, 2010-October 31, 2012, stratified by solitary confinement status and total. Inmates
who stayed longer than 50 weeks are not included

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