Prisons and Prison Building

The state of the prisons. Deaths in prison.

Prison tobacco control policies and deaths from smoking in United States prisons: population based retrospective analysis

OBJECTIVE To determine the mortality attributable to smoking and years of potential life lost from smoking among people in prison and whether bans on smoking in prison are associated with reductions in smoking related deaths. DESIGN Analysis of cross sectional survey data with the smoking attributable mortality, morbidity, and economic costs system; population based time series analysis. SE...

Assessing Prison Performance from the Inmates’ View: Comparing Private and Public Prisons

The views expressed in the paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of either the Federal Bureau of Prisons or the US Department of Justice.

Tuberculosis and HIV control in sub-Saharan African prisons: "thinking outside the prison cell".

Tuberculosis is one of the fastest-growing epidemics in prison populations in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), constituting a threat to both inmates and the wider community. Various factors have contributed to the breakdown of tuberculosis control in prison facilities in SSA, including slow and insensitive diagnostics, failing prison infrastructure, inadequate funding, and weak prevention and treatmen...

A social building? Prison architecture and staff-prisoner relationships