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 five 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 as a Federal Court Monitor (and expert to special masters/monitors) in the monitoring of suicide prevention practices 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 3,000 cases of suicide in jail, prison and juvenile facilities throughout the country during the past 30 years.

Mr. Hayes served as editor/project director of the Jail Suicide/Mental Health Update, a quarterly newsletter devoted to research, training, prevention, and litigation that was 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.

• Jerome G. Miller, Ph.D.
• Herbert J. Hoelter, MSW
• Jayne Gessner
• Kirk Larter, CPA
• Larry G. Norris, Ed.D.
• Earl S. El-Amin
• Lindsay M. Hayes, MS
• Rodney Norris, MHS
• Meredith Patti, Esquire
• Thomas Scott, LCSW-C