Abstract
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world by a large margin, with 629 individuals incarcerated for every 100,000 citizens in 2019. Individuals in police custody represent a vulnerable subset of trauma patients at risk for disparate care. Though the literature on mortality of persons in police custody is growing, less research exists on morbidity. Hence, we sought to characterize traumatic injuries of persons in police custody at a single urban trauma center. We hypothesized that the injuries sustained by patients in policy custody would be the same as the injured population in general and would be from blunt force trauma, such as motor vehicle collisions.
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