Monitoring Prisons in Europe: Understanding Perspectives of People in Prison and Prison Staff

Prison staff and the health promoting prison.

PURPOSE This paper aims to discuss some of the obstacles to implementing policy and strategy related to health promoting prisons. It focuses on the role of prison officers and raises issues concerning their conditions of service, training and organisational culture in a situation where the prison system faces security issues, overcrowding and high levels of ill health among prisoners. DESIGN/...

Identifying health promotion needs among prison staff in three English prisons: results from a qualitative study.

Prisons are seen as a (temporary) home and community for offenders, yet they also have a dual role as a workplace for prison staff. This article explores how the "healthy settings" philosophy, commonly used in schools, applies in the prison environment. The article explores the concept of the health-promoting prison from the perspective of prison staff using semistructured interviews in three E...

Prison violence: perspectives and epidemiology.

Violent crime receives considerable media attention. Its importance to the community is such that it is used as a yardstick against which to judge the effectiveness of social policy and the performance of governments. Programs and interventions to reduce violence and its consequences are needed given the level of community concern and the impact violence has on both the victim and society. Many...

Understanding prison riots

This article formulates a theoretical framework that helps to explain the origins of prison riots. Our explanation builds on existing theories, taking the integrative theory outlined by Useem and Kimball (1989) as a starting point. It shows how a variety of causal factors interact to create an institutional environment in which routine incidents can develop into full-fledged riots. We illustrat...

The state of the prisons. Deaths in prison.