International Journal of Prisoner Health: Volume 4 Issue 2

The health needs of imprisoned female juvenile offenders: The views of the young women prisoners and youth justice professionals

Nicola Douglas, Emma Plugge

Little is known about the health needs of detained juvenile females, yet there is emerging concern regarding substance misuse, mental health problems, poor sexual health and…

Prevalence of Hepatitis B virus and/or Hepatitis C virus co‐infections in prisoners infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Emanuele Pontali, Franco Ferrari

Correctional facilities host a disproportionately high prevalence of HBV, HCV and HIV infection. We evaluated the prevalence of HBV and/or HCV co‐infection among HIV‐infected…

The prevalence of diabetes among sexual and violent offenders and its co‐occurrence with cognitive impairment, mania, psychotic symptoms and aggressive behavior

Ron Langevin, Mara Langevin, Suzanne Curnoe, Jerald Bain

The prevalence of diabetes among 915 sexual, violent, and non‐violent non‐sex offenders was found to be more than twice the prevalence in the general population. Diabetes was most…

Antipsychotic polypharmacy in the emergency treatment of highly aggressive schizophrenic prisoners ‐ a retrospective study

Joachim G. Witzel, Udo Gubka, Heike Weisser, Bernhard Bogerts

In past years, Zuclopenthixolacetate as well as Flupentixoldecanoate have each proven to be reliable and efficient in the treatment of schizophrenic psychoses. In a specially…

Could recidivism in prisoners be linked to traumatic grief? A review of the evidence

Raelene M. Leach, Teresa Burgess, Chris Holmwood

Traumatic grief arises as a result of interpersonal trauma experienced as a betrayal of attachment. The distinct set of symptoms associated with it were first recognized in the…