A pandemic in prisons

Control and choice in English prisons: developing health-promoting prisons.

The 'health-promoting prison' has been informed by a broader settings-based philosophy to health promotion which conceptualizes health as the responsibility for all social settings. Though in its relative infancy, the notion of a health-promoting prison has gained political backing from international organizations like the World Health Organization, but the implementation of the policy rhetoric...

TB Control in Prisons

According to WHO, in 2010, there were 8.8 million (range, 8.5-9.2 million) incident cases of TB and 1.1 million (range, 8.5-9.2 million) deaths from TB among HIV-negative cases and an additional 0.35 million (range, 0.32-0.39) deaths from HIV-associated TB (WHO 2011). An examination of the map of estimated incidence rates by country and the breakdown of national figures in social strata rapidly...

Contradictory purposes in prisons.

Restorative justice in prisons

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Tuberculosis in prisons.

A recent report from the United States has drawn attention to a dramatic increase in the incidence of tuberculosis in prisons in New York state-from 15 4 per 100 000 between 1976 and 1978 to 105 5 in 1986.' High rates of tuberculosis in prisons have been reported before in the United States,2 but the new and disturbing feature is that in 1986 over half of the prisoners with the disease also had...