Prisoners of war

Captivity psychoses among prisoners of war.

Counting Casualties in the War on Prisoners

OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES, numerous prisons in the United States have operated in a state of crisis.1 The sheer number of persons incarcerated during these years overwhelmed the capacity to safely and humanely house and administer to the prisoners placed under correctional control. Policies of mass incarceration that were pursued over these decades created drastic shortages of space and res...

Persisting nutritional neuropathy amongst former war prisoners.

Of 898 former Far East prisoners of war, assessed between 1968 and 1981, 49 (5.5%) had evidence of persisting symptomatic neurological disease dating back to their periods of malnutrition in captivity. The commonest syndromes were peripheral neuropathy (often of "burning foot" type), optic atrophy, and sensori-neural deafness. Though nutritional neuropathies disappeared soon after release in mo...

Evidence of resilience: neuroimaging in former prisoners of war.

In this study, single voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging ((1)H-MRS) and volumetric analysis of hippocampal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images were used to determine if any differences in hippocampal biochemistry or volume were present between former prisoners of war (POWs) with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and control subjects matched for age and educ...

The Institutional Features of the Prisoners of War Treaties

The Institutional Features of the Prisoners of War Treaties by James D. Morrow Formal treaties on the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs) were negotiated and ratified during the 20th century. These treaties create a system for the treatment of POWs with universal and detailed standards and decentralized enforcement. I explain the form of the POW system as a rational institutional response to f...