Prison breakthrough

Prison

This work is evidently an assiduous garnering of facts and figures as expounded during an extensive guided tour of penal instiutions. But a book about prison in which no single prisoner appears as a creature of flesh and blood is unmistakably a secondhand affair which cannot take much hold of what prison is all about. However, the material is wide-ranging, useful for reference and a guide to of...

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/...

Breakthrough : Thrombosis –

Breakthrough to Nursing: a past Breakthrough chairperson looks back.

The breakthrough

The presentation of science in the media is usually far more optimistic than other areas of reporting; in place of war and famine we have breakthroughs and astonishing discoveries. But the detail — the slow accretion of supporting data and the puzzling incompatibility of some results — is usually ignored. In effect, science stories are ‘edited’ (either by the journalist or by the scientist who ...