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Lindsay Hayes began his employment as a research assistant with
NCIA in 1978. He has been program director of the NCIA Jail Suicide
Prevention and Liability Reduction program since 1980, and currently
operates from an office in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Hayes is
nationally recognized as an expert in the field of suicide prevention
within jails, prisons and juvenile facilities. He has conducted
the only four national studies of jail, prison, and juvenile suicide
through contracts with the U.S. Justice Department.
Mr. Hayes serves as a technical assistance consultant in suicide
prevention in custodial facilities, conducting training seminars
and assessing inmate and juvenile suicide prevention practices in
various state and local jurisdictions throughout the country. He
has acted as an expert witness/consultant in inmate suicide litigation
cases, and has been appointed to assist special masters in the development
and implementation of suicide prevention policies in several adult
and juvenile correctional systems under court jurisdiction. Mr.
Hayes is also a suicide prevention consultant to the U.S. Justice
Department’s Civil Rights Division (Special Litigation Section)
in its investigations of conditions of confinement in both adult
and juvenile correctional facilities throughout the country. As
a result of his research, technical assistance, and expert witness
consultant work in the area of suicide prevention in correctional
facilities, Mr. Hayes has reviewed and/or examined over 1,500 cases
of suicide in jail, prison, and juvenile facilities throughout the
country during the past 25 years.
Mr. Hayes serves as editor/project director of the Jail Suicide/Mental
Health Update, a quarterly newsletter devoted to research, training,
prevention, and litigation that has been funded by the U.S. Justice
Department for over 20 years. He is a consulting editor and editorial
board member of Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, the official
scientific journal of the American Association of Suicidology. He
was the 2001 recipient of the National Commission on Correctional
Health Care’s Award of Excellence for outstanding contribution
in the field of suicide prevention in correctional facilities. Mr.
Hayes holds as Master of Science degree in the Administration of
Justice from The American University, and a Bachelor of Science
degree in Sociology from Ithaca College.
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- Jerome G. Miller, Ph.D.
- Herbert J. Hoelter, MSW
- Jayne Gessner
- Kirk Larter, CPA
- Larry G. Norris, Ed.D.
- Thomas Pointer
- Earl S. El-Amin
- Lindsay M. Hayes, MS
- David C. Heebner, MA, LPC
- Rodney Norris, MHS
- Christine Pahigian
- Meredith Patti, Esquire
- Thomas Scott, LCSW-C
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