International Journal of Prisoner Health: Volume 1 Issue 2/3/4

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Prisons as regional drivers of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in some Central Asian countries: A matter of ‘least eligibility’?

Gesa Walcher

The Central Asian republics are among the countries which currently experience the world’s fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemic. At the same time, they are threatened by the…

Women and healthcare in prison: An overview of the experiences of imprisoned women in Italy

Donatella Zoia

The article will discuss the particular needs of women prisoners, many of which are replicated in prisons throughout Europe, and are also often undetected and underestimated. The…

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Women in prison: Responses of European prison systems to problematic drug users

Heike Zurhold, Christian Haasen

Problematic drug use in prison remains a pervasive and increasing concern throughout the European Union (EU) in terms of costs to the individual, community and the state…

Prison cultures and social representations: The case of Hinseberg, a women’s prison in Sweden

Odd Lindberg

Women represent approximately 6% of the prison population of Sweden (total ‐ 5000). This article presents a study of female inmates in the closed prison for women, Hinseberg, in…

The future of mandatory drug testing in Scottish prisons: A review of policy

Jeanne Dean

This article reviews the procedures for the management of drug misuse in Scottish prisons 10 years after the introduction of the legislative framework permitting the introduction…

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Addressing vulnerability amongst imprisoned juvenile offenders: An evaluation of the Access course

Heather Welfare, Jonathan Mitchell

A number of initiatives within Her Majesty’s Prison Service have explored how best to support the needs of vulnerable young people. One such is the Access programme, which employs…

178

Capturing perceptions: Prisoners assess their health services ‐ Australia, 2001 and 2004

Jacob Barling, Rhonda Halpin, Michael Levy

There is little literature on patient satisfaction related to prisoner health services; the little that does exist refers to specific services, or to sub‐groups of…

Breaking barriers and building connections

Ray Travers, Sue Reeves

The Primrose Project has been developed, as part of the Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) programme in England and Wales, to specifically address the…

Women’s post‐release experiences in the U.S: Recidivism and re‐entry

Patricia O’Brien, Robin Bates

A survey of 166 women exiting prison in a large mid‐western U.S. state examined the extent to which demographics, family history and relationships, institutional experiences…

Incarcerated women: Consequences and contributions of victimization and intervention

Margaret Severson, Judy L. Postmus, Marianne Berry

The increasing rate of imprisonment of women in the United States and the over‐representation of women victims of violence in the corrections system confirms that there are…

Female offenders at HMP Holloway needing hospital transfer: An examination of failure to achieve hospital admission and associated factors

Oriana Chao, Richard Taylor

Previous studies have demonstrated high rates of psychiatric morbidity in the female prison population and difficulty in transferring women to psychiatric hospital. This study…

Mental health needs of women in prison: An international perspective with an Australian angle

Deborah Wilmoth

This paper will present the mental health needs that women in prison have, both in terms of the mental health problems they have prior to going into prison and those that they may…

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The role of empathy in work with women offenders

Shulamith Lala A Straussner, Norma Kolko Phillips

Research has validated the crucial aspect of empathy in effective clinical practice. Empathy requires the identification of the helping professional with the emotional experience…

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Childhood abuse, limited intervention and homelessness: Pathways to the mental health and justice systems

Max Liddell

This paper explores a major pathway that lead people into the ranks of the homeless, the mental health and the justice systems ‐ abuse as a child followed by time in the care of…

The development of HIV/AIDS interventions in Romanian prisons

Afrodita Qaramah, Emanuel Parausanu

The Romanian Prison Service Department, as part of the Ministry of Justice, comprises 42 prison institutions, including 34 prisons, six prison hospitals and three centres for…

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An HIV intervention: The work of the Convictus Eesti group in Estonian prisons

Tamara Kalantar, Latsin Alijev

Convictus Eesti is a non‐government organisation (NGO) operating in Estonia that receives some funding from another Convictus branch based in Sweden. Its main activities include…

ISSN:

1744-9200

Online date, start – end:

2005 – 2023

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Editors:

  • Rosemary Mhlanga-Gunda
  • Emma Plugge