“VigilanS-Prison”: a brief contact intervention to prevent suicidal behavior in prisons and corrections
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Date
2025
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Elsevier Masson s.r.l.
Abstract
In France, suicide accounts for around half of all deaths in prisons. Every year, around 120 people die by suicide in French prisons, i.e. one suicide every three days. Preventing suicide in prisons is therefore a major public health issue. In this interview With Jean-Pierre Bouchard, Élodie Mao, Thomas Fovet, Christel Debien, Guillaume Vaiva, Christophe Debien and Vincent Jardon provide feedback on the implementation of the VigilanS-Prison system in Hauts-de-France. The main principles of this brief contact intervention are presented, an initial activity report is given and the development prospects for this experiment are discussed
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Brief contact intervention, Prevention, Prison, Suicide, VigilanS
Citation
Mao, É., Fovet, T., Debien, C., Vaiva, G., Debien, C., Jardon, V. and Bouchard, J.P., 2025, February. «VigilanS-Prison»: mise en place d’une veille épistolaire pour la prévention du suicide en milieu carcéral. In Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique. Elsevier Masson.