Publications

Arias, S. A., Sperber, K., Jones, R., Taxman, F., Miller, T. R., Berg, S., Zyberfuden, S., Weinstock, L. M., Ahmedani, B., & Johnson, J. E. (2023).
Managed care updates of subscriber jail booking and release to prompt community suicide prevention: Clinical trial protocol.
BMC Health Services Research, 23, 1265.

Arias, S. A., Weinstock, L. M., Toor, M., Cinader, M., Schall, G, Brown, G., Stanley, B. & Johnson, J. E. (2025).
Baseline and Lifetime Suicidality and Risk Factors Among Pretrial Jail Detainees Enrolled in a Suicide Prevention Trial.
Psychiatric Services.

Arias, S.A., Gaudiano, B.A., Epstein-Lubow, G., Zylberfuden, S., & Weinstock, L.M. (2025).
Considerations and Challenges When Using Clinical and Vital Record Review for Suicide Research.
Journal of Patient Safety.

Chukwuorji, J.C., Weinstock, L.M., Jeon, M.E., Braun, T.D., Arias, S.A., Cinader, M.K., Hammad, H., Miller, T., & Johnson, J.E. (2025).
Suicide methods in the year following release from pretrial jail detention.
International Journal of Prison Health.

Comartin E.B., Victor G., Kheibari A., Ahmedani B.K., Hedden-Clayton B., Jones R.N., Miller T.R., Johnson J.E., Weinstock L.M., Kubiak S.
Suicide Risk Screening in Jails: Protocol for a Pilot Study Leveraging the Mental Health Research Network Algorithm and Health Care Data.
JMIR Research Protocols, vol. 14, 2025, pp. e68517.

Hailemariam M., Weinstock L.M., Sneed R.S., Taylor B., Corrigan P.W., Johnson J.E.
Peer navigation intervention for individuals with serious mental illness reentering the community after jail incarceration: a qualitative case study.
Pilot and Feasibility Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 2024, pp. 129.

Johnson, J. E., Ramezani, N., Viglione, J., Hailemariam, M., Taxman, F. S. (in press).
Recommended mental health practices for individuals interacting with police, court, jail, probation, and parole in the U.S.
Psychiatric Services.
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Johnson, J. E., Viglione, J., Ramezani, N., Cuellar, A. E., Hailemariam, M., Rosen, R., Breno, A., & Taxman, F. (2021).
Protocol for a quasi-experimental, 950 county study examining implementation outcomes and mechanisms of Stepping Up, a national policy effort to improve mental health and substance use services for justice-involved individuals.
Implementation Science, 16, 31.

Johnson, J. E., Jones, R., Miller, T., Miller, I., Stanley, B., Brown, G., Arias, S. A., Cerbo, L., Rexroth, J., Fitting, H., Russell, D., Kubiak, S., Stein, M., Matkovic, C., Yen, S., Gaudiano, B., & Weinstock, L. M. (2020).
Study protocol: A randomized controlled trial of suicide risk reduction in the year following jail release (the SPIRIT Trial).
Contemporary Clinical Trials, 94, 106003. PMC9236190.

Johnson, J. E., Hailemariam, M., Zlotnick, C., Richie, F., Sinclair, J., Chuong, A., Wiltsey Stirman, S. (2020).
Mixed methods analysis of implementation of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for major depressive disorder in prisons in a Hybrid Type I randomized trial.
Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 47(3), 410-426.  PMC9187220

Johnson, J. E., Stout, R. L., Miller, T., R., Zlotnick, C., Cerbo, L. A., Andrade, J. T., Nargiso, J., Bonner, J., Wiltsey-Stirman, S. (2019).
Randomized cost-effectiveness trial of group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for prisoners with major depression.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87(4), 392-406.

Rabasco, A., Arias, S., Benz, M.B., Weinstock, L.M., Miller, I., Boudreaux, E.D., Camargo, C.A., Kunicki, Z.J., Gaudiano, B.A.
Longitudinal risk of suicide outcomes in people with severe mental illness following an emergency department visit and the effects of suicide prevention treatment. Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 347, 2024, pp. 477-485.

Ramezani, N., Breno, A. J., Mackey, B. J., Viglione, J., Cuellar, A. E., Johnson, J. E., & Taxman, F. S. (2022).
The relationship between community public health, behavioral health service accessibility, and mass incarceration.
BMC Health Services Research, 22, 966.  DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-08306-6

Sanchez-Morales D., Mason S., Chan P.P.M., Borschmann R., Simpson A., Weinstock L.M., Dmetrichuk J.M., Schaffer A., Mitchell R.H.B., Steinberg R., Sinyor M.
Criminal Justice System Contacts among Suicide Decedents in Toronto, 1998-2020: An Observational Study: Démêlés avec le système de justice pénale parmi les personnes décédées par suicide à Toronto, entre 1998 et 2020: Une étude d’observation.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2025, pp. 7067437251342276.

Streltzov, N.A., Carbuccia, K., Miller, I., Johnson, J.E., Gaudiano, B.A., Stevens, L., Graves, H., Weinstock, L.M. (2024).
Comparing Experiences of Community Reintegration Following Hospitalization Versus Jail Detention During a Mental Health Crisis
Rhode Island Medical Journal, 107, 35-39.

Uebelacker, L.A., Stevens, L., Graves, H., Braun, T.D., Foster, R., Johnson, J.E., Tremont, G., Weinstock, L.M. (2024)
Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Yoga-Based Intervention Targeting Anger Management for People Who Are Incarcerated
Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, e-publication ahead of print, doi.org/10.1089/jicm.2024.0308

Presentations

Benz, M., Tezanos, K., Namaky, N., Hughes, C., Poon, J., & Weinstock, L.M. (2024, November). Recruitment, engagement, and retention when conducting research with specific clinical populations at high-risk for suicide: Challenges, strategies, and recommendations. In L.M. Weinstock (Moderator), panel discussion presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Green, K., Jager-Hyman, S., Khazem, L., Kautz, M., Brown, L., Bauermeister, J., & Weinstock, L.M. (Discussant). (2024, November). In K.Green (Chair),  Suicide prevention in historically underrepresented groups: From mechanisms to implementation. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Miller, T. (2024, September). Targeting Suicide Prevention: Share of Adult Suicides Preceded by Recent Jail Release, USA, 2019. World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, New Delhi, India.

Weinstock, L.M., Ahmedani, B., & Johnson, J.E. (2024, December). The National Center for Health and Justice Integration for Suicide Prevention: Targeting criminal legal involvement as a marker of heightened suicide risk as a critical point of intervention in the community. In W. Bunney (Chair), Addressing the increase in completed suicides in the United States: Strategies to decrease suicides in diverse demographics – the identification of questions and problems in the field. Study Group convened at the annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Phoenix, AZ.

Weinstock, L.M. (2025, February). Jail detention as a risk factor and point of intervention for suicide prevention. In (L.Teplin, Chair), The consequences of incarceration for health, the family, and future generations. Symposium to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, MA.